Tessa Thompson and Ebon Moss-Bachrach will star in a psychological thriller from Aoife McArdle, Foxfinder.
They’ll be joined by Adolescence breakout Owen Cooper in Foxfinder, based on the award-winning play by Dawn King, with a screenplay co-written by director McArdle and the playwright.
“The lives of Jude and Sam, a grieving couple clinging to routine and survival, are upended when William, a coldly devout government ‘foxfinder,’ arrives at their struggling farm with a mission to root out the designated enemy — the fox,” reads a plot synopsis. “As paranoia festers and absurd regulations tighten their grip, suspicion replaces love and truth itself begins to warp.”
Cornerstone and Logical Pictures Group will co-rep international sales and distribution. They’ll launch sales at Cannes, with production set to begin in Germany this summer.
The film is a Rabbit Track Pictures and Elation Pictures production developed with Film4 and the BFI (awarding National Lottery funding), co-produced by Komplizen Film and Trimafilm. In addition to support from Film4 and the BFI, financiers include Logical Pictures Group, German Federal Film Fund (DFFF), the Bavarian fund FFF Bayern and Medienboard Berlin-Brandenburg.
Foxfinder is produced by Kamilla Hodol and Emilie Jouffroy for Elation Pictures, whose latest feature, The End of It, starring Rebecca Hall, Gael Garcia Bernal and Noomi Rapace, will have its world premiere in Cannes. Producing for Rabbit Track Pictures is Kitty Kaletsky, as well as Janine Jackowski and David Armati Lechner from Trimafilm. Executive producers are Farhana Bhula and Cate Kane for Film4 and Fred Fiore and Ryan Wickers for Logical.
Hodol and Jouffroy described McArdle as “a visionary storyteller.” They said: “Her bold and cinematic take on Foxfinder will be both epic and deeply probing. We are thrilled to be bringing it to life with such a stellar cast and supportive backers.”
Kaletsky added: “Foxfinder’s searing and absurdist examination of tyranny, prejudice and scapegoating feels more timely with every week that goes by and the play and film’s themes will resonate with audiences all around the world.”
