Mike Goodridge’s Good Chaos Gets Investment From Audio Platform Alexander, Companies Reveal First Film Collaboration

EXCLUSIVE: Mike Goodridge’s growing UK production company Good Chaos, which is in Cannes with Un Certain Regard title Santosh, has had a minority equity investment from Cameron Lamb’s Paris-based audio platform Alexander.

The investment will give Alexander an opportunity to develop its growing non-fiction IP library, across film and TV formats, while Good Chaos has been able to grow its headcount, operations and production reach.

The companies’ first joint film project is Wife, Witch, Poisoner, Whore, a period thriller based on the Alexander audiobook by Katherine Rundell, and narrated by Helena Bonham Carter.

The official synopsis reads: “Beautiful, rich, clever, and determined English noblewoman Frances Howard was a dazzling celebrity at the court of James I. But when the unhappy teenage bride rebelled against the patriarchy of her day, she was put on trial for witchcraft, infidelity and murder – very nearly at the expense of her life.”

Good Chaos is on a roll. This year, it has premiered Mikko Makela’s Sebastian in Sundance, and Qiu Yang’s Some Rain Must Fall in Berlin, where it won the Encounters Special Jury Award. Sandhya Suri’s Santosh has been selected for Un Certain Regard in Cannes, while Baltasar Kormakur’s romantic drama Touch opens in the U.S. through Focus Features on July 12 and internationally through Universal Pictures International throughout the year.

Set to shoot later this year are Edward Berger’s The Ballad Of A Small Player for Netflix and Laszlo Nemes’ Orphan which is being launched at the Cannes market by Charades and New Europe Film Sales.

Alexander is a direct-to-consumer original audio platform, with narrations from the likes of Vanessa Kirby, Dan Stevens, John Malkovich, David Oyelowo, Natasha Lyonne and Emma Corrin, and writers such as Marieke Lucas Reijneveld, Colum McCann, Tsitsi Dangarembga, Michael Rezendes, Xiaolu Guo and physicist Carlo Rovelli.

Lamb was previously a producer on movies including Wim Wenders pic Submergence and 2014 Sundance title Kumiko, The Treasure Hunter.