EXCLUSIVE: Claire Foy has signed on to star in the upcoming feature, The Pisces, based on author Melissa Broder’s critically acclaimed novel of the same name.
Broder and Gillian Robespierre penned the script that Robespierre will direct. Foy, who is the latest addition to the project, will play a PhD student plagued with writer’s block and romantic obsession.The Pisces is centered on Lucy’s erotic infatuation with a merman.
But as fantastical as that sounds sounds, it is more than just a lady-fishman love story. It’s an exploration of the boundaries between pleasure and possession, fantasy vs.
reality and the way women choose the men in their lives.Archer Gray’s Anne Carey developed the script with Broder and Robespierre.
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