EXCLUSIVE: Hong Chau has landed the female lead opposite Brendan Fraser in an Untitled film for A24 that Darren Aronofsky is on board to direct.
Sources also say Samantha Morton and Sadie Sink are in negotiations to join cast. Deadline first reported last month that Aronofsky was making this his first film since Paramount’s Mother and had found his star in Fraser.A24 will have worldwide rights to the project.
MacArthur-winning playwright Samuel D. Hunter (Greater Clements) will adapt the script. The film is the story of a reclusive English teacher suffering from severe obesity who attempts to reconnect with his estranged teenage daughter for one last chance at redemption.
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