Emma Corrin & Lucie Zhang To Star As Best Friends Who Scam Sugar Daddies In Hong Kong-Set Comedy ‘Peaches’; Cate Blanchett’s Dirty Films Produces & MK2 Handles Sales
deadline.comEXCLUSIVE: Golden Globe winner Emma Corrin (The Crown) and Cesar nominee Lucie Zhang (Paris, 13th District) are set to star in Jenny Suen’s English language feature debut Peaches, which Coco Francini (Fingernails) will produce and Oscar winner Cate Blanchett and Andrew Upton will executive-produce for Dirty Films.
Set in contemporary Hong Kong, the movie will follow two spoiled best friends who scam sugar daddies for a living. When they discover a Hermes Birkin bag they were gifted is a fake, their “boyfriends” and crimes catch up with them.
The film is an adaptation of Vera Chitylova’s 1966 Czech New Wave comedy Daisies. Paris-based MK2 Films, whose slate includes Cannes Palme d’Or winner Anatomy of a Fall and Cannes Un Certain Regard winner How to Have Sex, is handling international sales and discussed the project with buyers at last week’s AFM.
The film will start production early next year in Hong Kong. Suen made her debut on 2017 drama The White Girl, which she wrote and co-directed with revered DoP Christopher Doyle.
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