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BAFTA Winner Jodie Comer To Star In Apocalyptic Thriller ‘The End We Start From’ With Benedict Cumberbatch’s SunnyMarch Among Producers, Anton & UTA Launch Sales — Cannes Market Hot Project

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EXCLUSIVE: Fresh off her second BAFTA win last night for British drama Help, Killing Eve and The Last Duel star Jodie Comer has found her next project in the shape of feature thriller The End We Start From, which will be a hot package at next week’s Cannes market.Set amid an environmental crisis that sees London submerged by flood waters, the feminist survival story focuses on a young family torn apart in the chaos.

Comer will play a mother who with her new-born child tries to find a way home, navigating the most challenging and apocalyptic start to motherhood.Adapted from the critically acclaimed novel by Megan Hunter (the 2017 book was described by the FT as reminiscent of Cormac McCarthy’s The Road), the female-fronted project boasts an exciting combination of rising and established creatives and producers.BAFTA winner Mahalia Belo (The Long Song) will direct from a script by Alice Birch, the playwright and screenwriter who is key writer and story editor on HBO smash Succession.

Producers are SunnyMarch’s Leah Clarke and Adam Ackland (The Mauritanian) and Hera Pictures’ Liza Marshall (Temple) alongside Sophie Hunter and Amy Jackson (The Nest).Anton and BBC Film will co-finance.

Executive producers are Benedict Cumberbatch, Jodie Comer, Anton’s Sébastien Raybaud and Cecile Gaget (Greenland), and BBC Film’s Eva Yates (After Love).Cecile Gaget will launch global sales on the film in Cannes.

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