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EXCLUSIVE: Emmy winner Guy Pearce (The Brutalist), Emmy winner Hannah Waddingham (Ted Lasso), and The Gentlemen star Daniel Ings have been set to lead crime-thriller Mr. Sunny Sky, which Bankside is launching ahead of the American Film Market.
The film will follow Leonard Moore, a once chart-topping pop star now lounge singer at a mid-budget Canary Island hotel. One night he meets Shirley, another lost soul with whom he shares an instant connection. But Shirley’s husband is a dangerous man and soon the new couple’s burgeoning romance is thrust into a spiral of paranoia, suspense and violence.
Matt Chambers is directing based on his own screenplay and filming is due to start next year on location in Gran Canaria. This will be Chambers’ second feature after the well-received The Bike Thief which was nominated for a British Independent Film Award.
Pic will be produced by PK Fellowes of Ellipsis Pictures (The Bike Thief) and Rowena Wallace of Peach House (Teen Spirit). Executive producers are Peter Welter of Fresco Films and Stephen Kelliher and Sophie Green of Bankside Films.
Casting is by Clare Harlow (Settlers) and the film will be shot by Chambers’ longtime collaborator Nanu Segal BSC (A Spy Amongst Friends).
Bankside Films will be introducing the film to buyers at the American Film Market and are handling worldwide sales.
Matt Chambers said: “I couldn’t feel luckier to be making this film on such a beautiful island, side by side with the most talented people I know, friends old and new, legends established and in the making. Putting the astonishing Guy and Hannah together, it’s obvious we’re onto something electrifying.”
Yana Georgieva of Bankside Films added: “Mr. Sunny Sky is a wonderfully romantic take on the classic crime thriller genre. It’s both dangerous and compelling and Matt has assembled a brilliant cast to bring his story to the screen.”
Chambers is repped by Peach House and Verve Talent and Literary Agency. Pearce is repped by CAA, Independent Talent, Shanahan Management in Australia, and David Weber at Sloane Offer. Waddingham is repped by CAA, Creative Artists Management, Atlas Artists and Jackoway Austen. Ings is repped by United Agents, Color Creative and Sloane Offer.
