Olivia Cooke (Home of the Dragon) has joined the forged of Anton Corbijn’s thriller Switzerland starring Helen Mirren as crime novelist and Tom Ripley creator Patricia Highsmith.
Sources near the manufacturing have confirmed her casting as filming will get underway in Rome, forward of shifting to northern Italy, Switzerland and London.
The film has been tailored by Australian author Joanna Murray-Smith from her play of the identical title, revolving round Patricia Highsmith’s encounter with an formidable younger literary agent, performed by beforehand connected Alden Ehrenreich (Oppenheimer).
Set in 1995, an ageing Patricia Highsmith resides a secluded existence within the Swiss Alps with solely her cats for firm.
When a pushy younger man turns up at her residence, despatched by her New York writer to influence her to jot down a last guide in her best-selling Tom Ripley collection, it turns into clear he’s on a extra sinister mission.
Producers are Gabrielle Tana Troy Lum and Andrew Mason at Brouhaha Leisure; Jim Robison and Kurt Martin for Lunar Footage; Karl Spoerri at Switzerland’s Zurich Avenue; and Andrea Occhipinti for Italy’s Fortunate Crimson.
FilmNation Leisure is dealing with worldwide gross sales.
