EXCLUSIVE: Producer Daniel Bekerman, whose Donald Trump film The Apprentice simply premiered in competitors at Cannes to sturdy notices, has set his subsequent characteristic Knight’s Camp, a darkish comedy starring Judy Greer (13 Happening 30, Ant-Man) and Sophia Lillis (It, Dungeons and Dragons: Honor Amongst Thieves).
Filmmaking duo Kyle Rideout and Josh Epstein (Eadweard, Adventures in Public Faculty and the upcoming Youngblood) co-wrote the screenplay, with Rideout set to helm.
Bekerman (The Witch), Chris Yurkovich (Slash/Again), and Jordan Hart (I, Object) are producing for Good Query Media in affiliation with Scythia Movies, together with Epstein. Casting is at present underway.
Knight’s Camp follows 4 bubble-wrapped teenagers at a medieval-themed summer time camp. On the eve of the camp’s well-known Battle of Twin Bridge re-enactment, the kids ignite an previous legend and are unintentionally transported to the actual battle in 1297 A.D., the place they’re tasked with saving one in all their ancestors to protect the way forward for their household lineage. Set in Scotland, the pic explores the juxtaposition between the lives of modern-day youngsters and the brutal actuality of bygone medieval occasions.
Knight’s Camp will reteam Greer with Rideout and Epstein, who beforehand collaborated on Adventures in Public Faculty.
Good Query Media and Scythia Movies’s The Apprentice, starring Sebastian Stan as a younger Donald Trump, Jeremy Sturdy as his mentor Roy Cohn, and Maria Bakalova as Ivana Trump, and directed by Cannes winner Ali Abassi, notched 80% licensed recent rating on Rotten Tomatoes with critics. The businesses not too long ago introduced The Eden Categorical, from writer-director Daniel Cockburn which relies on the memoir of the identical title by Mark Vonnegut and true occasions that discover life with psychological sickness. LevelK is representing the worldwide gross sales and Stephen Fry will function an EP.
Greer is represented by CAA, Artists First and Fred Toczek. Lillis is represented by CAA, Untitled Leisure, and Ryan Levine at Jackoway Austen Tyerman. Rideout and Epstein are represented by Echo Lake Leisure and The Jennifer Hollyer Company.
