Olivia Colman & Jessie Buckley Set To Reunite On ‘Wicked Little Letters’ For Studiocanal, ‘Three Billboards’ Outfit Blueprint & South Of The River Pictures — Cannes Market Hot Project
deadline.comEXCLUSIVE: Fresh off their Oscar nominations for drama The Lost Daughter, Oscar winner Olivia Colman (The Favourite) and Chernobyl star Jessie Buckley are set to reunite on comedy Wicked Little Letters, which will be a hot project at the Cannes market.French powerhouse Studiocanal developed the project, is launching sales, and is producing with Three Billboards Outside Ebbing Missouri and The Best Exotic Marigold Hotel outfit Blueprint and Colman’s South Of The River Pictures.Based on a true story, the movie will see the in-demand Brit actors play very different neighbours who come together to solve a mystery.Buckley will be fiery Rose Gooding who has little in common with the pious Edith Swan (Colman) aside from them being neighbours in the seaside town of Littlehampton in the 1920’s.
One day, Edith and others in the town start receiving scandalous letters written with foul language as eccentric as it is obscene, and the finger of suspicion immediately falls on Rose.
As Rose stands to lose her freedom and the custody of her daughter, and outrageous letters continue to blight the town, police officer Gladys Moss begins to suspect something is amiss.
Together with a group of resourceful women, Gladys endeavours to solve the mystery, liberate Rose, and catch the real culprit.By the sound of it, there is a small dose of Three Billboards Outside Ebbing Missouri here, which is no bad thing given the Blueprint film scored multiple Oscar wins and $160M at the box office.Thea Sharrock (Me Before You) directs from a script by British actor and writer Jonny Sweet.
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