EXCLUSIVE: Quiver Distribution has acquired the North American distribution rights to the function movie of Eugene O’Neill’s play, An extended day’s journey into the night time which stars two-time Academy Award winner Jessica Lange reprising her 2016 Tony Award-winning Broadway position.
Quiver will launch the image on September 25 with a particular screening at Movie at Lincoln Heart on September 14.
The movie represents the function directorial debut of British theater and opera director Jonathan Kent, who additionally directed the 2016 Broadway version of the play.
Lange (Blue sky, Tootsie) performs Mary Tyrone, the emotionally troubled matriarch stricken by habit. Ed Harris, four-time Oscar nominee (Pollock) performs her husband James; a self-made man, a famend actor and a bankrupt actual property tycoon. The Tyrone household is accomplished by Ben Foster (Hell or excessive water) because the charming however temperamental and hard-drinking eldest son, Jamie, with Colin Morgan (Belfast) because the poetic, darkly optimistic and consumptive youthful son, Edmund – a portrait of O’Neill himself.
“We’re thrilled to convey director Jonathan Kent’s outstanding debut function movie to American audiences,” stated Quiver Distribution Co-Presidents Berry Meyerowitz and Jeff Sackman. “Kent has assembled a strong forged, led by the unbelievable Jessica Lange, to inform O’Neill’s story. Jessica is just mesmerizing, giving what stands out as the defining efficiency of her illustrious stage and display screen profession.”
“Translating and adapting for the display screen what’s arguably the best American play requires, above all, a outstanding forged,” Kent stated. “Working with Ed Harris and the sensible Jessica Lange – who I directed on Broadway in the identical position – was an exhilarating expertise. They’re each as supremely achieved on display screen as they’re on stage. The center of the movie should inevitably lie in its portrayal of the tragic Tyrone household – all 4 actors, I consider, obtain this magnificently.”
The movie was produced by Gabrielle Tana, Invoice Kenwright and Gleb Fetisov and Redmond Morris. David Lindsay-Abaire (Rabbit Gap, Oz the Nice and Highly effective) tailored the play for the display screen.
Kent was nominated for Tony and Olivier awards. His theater productions have been seen within the West Finish, Broadway, Dublin and Edinburgh. He has performed operas on the Royal Opera Home, Glyndebourne, the English Nationwide Opera, St. Petersburg, Paris, New York, Santa Fe, Los Angeles and Tokyo. Between 1990 and 2002, Jonathan served as co-artistic director of the Almeida Theater, which he co-founded as a full-time producing theater. His productions included Medea (additionally West Finish/Broadway); Hamlet (additionally Broadway); Richard II; Coriolanus (additionally New York/Tokyo); Quite a bit (west finish); Lulu (additionally Washington); Phaedra; Britannicus (additionally West Finish/New York); Different theatrical works embrace Gypsy (west finish); Sweeney Todd (west finish); Points of affection (west finish); A Chekhov trilogy (Nationwide Theater); Good folks (Hampstead Theatre/West Finish); Chinese language ink (Hampstead Theatre); Home of Video games (Hampstead Theatre); Opera work consists of Electra And The girl with out Shadow (each Mariinsky, St. Petersburg); The queen of fairies (Glyndebourne/Paris/New York); Tosca (Royal Opera). Kent is at present directing a brand new musical The soul within the air which is able to open in Madrid in October 2026.
Lange is repped by Untitled, CAA and lawyer Diane Golden, Harris is repped by CAA, Ziffren Brittenham LLP, Foster is repped by Vary Media Companions and Eric Suddleson at TS Regulation Group, Morgan is repped by United Brokers & United Expertise, Kent is repped by CAA and The Company.
The deal was negotiated by Larry Greenberg and TJ Smith on behalf of Quiver Distribution with David Gilbery and Naomi George on behalf of BK Studios.