Cate Blanchett to Produce and Star in ‘The New Boy’ About Australian Aboriginal Orphan
thewrap.comCate Blanchett is set to star in and produce a film called “The New Boy” that will be set in 1940s Australia and follow the journey of a 9-year-old Aboriginal orphan boy.Indigenous Australian filmmaker Warwick Thornton (“Sweet Country”) will write and direct the drama, and filming is set to begin in October of this year in South Australia.
Blanchett will star in “The New Boy” as a renegade nun running a remote monastery who takes in the child after he arrives in the dead of the night.
However, the new boy’s presence disturbs the delicately balanced world in this story of spiritual struggle and the cost of survival.Deborah Mailman and Wayne Blair also star in the film.Blanchett is producing through her Dirty Films banner alongside Andrew Upton and Georgie Pym, and Kath Shelper will also produce for Scarlett Pictures.
The film was developed by Scarlett Pictures, with the assistance of Screen Australia’s First Nations Department, and is scheduled to wrap production at the end of 2022.Roadshow Films will be distributing for Australia and New Zealand, CAA Media Finance and UTA will be handling sales for North America, and The Veterans is on board to manage sales for the remainder of the globe.“What a joy to finally be collaborating with Warwick — a filmmaker whose warmth, wit and humanity we have admired for so very long.
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