Barbie and Intercourse Schooling actor Connor Swindells has joined the all-star ensemble solid of The Leisure System Is Down, the brand new darkish satire from Triangle of Unhappiness director Ruben Östlund.
The Swedish helmer has already lined up a crowd of A-lists for the function, together with Kirsten Dunst, Daniel Brühl, Keanu Reeves, Nicholas Braun, Samantha Morton, and Tobias Menzies.
Alongside Swindells, new additions to the Leisure System solid embody Daniel Webber (The Punisher), Wayne Blair (The New Boy), Dan Wyllie (Animal Kingdom), Lindsay Duncan (Birdman), Allan Corduner (Defiance), Sofia Tjelta Sydness (Ida Takes Cost), Erin Ainsworth (Napoleon), Myles Kamwendo (Boarders), Sanna Sundqvist (Name Mother!), Tea Stjärne (Barracuda Queens), and Swedish singer/songwriter Benjamin Ingrosso.
The function is ready on a long-haul flight between England and Australia. When the leisure system fails, passengers are compelled to face the horror of being bored and conflicts — private and political — bubble to the floor.
Östlund has begun principal images on Leisure System in Budapest. The movie is ready to shoot over 70 days via Could of this 12 months. The producers bought a retired Boeing 747 particularly for the challenge. The Leisure System is Down will mark Östlund’s second English-language movie after Triangle, which was a cross-over hit, grossing greater than $26 million worldwide and scoring three Oscar nominations, together with for greatest image. Triangle of Unhappiness additionally gained the Palme d’Or in Cannes, a two-peat for Östlund, who additionally took Cannes’ high honor in 2017 for The Sq..
The Coproduction Office is dealing with world gross sales to Leisure System. A24 pre-bought U.S. rights to the movie in an eight-figure deal in Cannes final 12 months.
The Leisure System is Down is produced by Plattform Produktion (Sweden) with Important Movies (Germany) and Parisienne de Manufacturing (France). Co-producers are BBC Movie, Movie i Väst, Sveriges Tv, ZDF/ARTE, ARTE France Cinéma, SF Studios, Eye Eye Footage (Norway), Paloma Productions (Denmark). The movie is financed by the Swedish Movie Institute, Medienboard Berlin-Brandenburg, Filmförderungsanstalt (FFA), the Norwegian Movie Institute, the Danish Movie Institute, with the participation of Canal+, Disney+ and ARTE France and with the assist of Inventive Europe MEDIA.