Sony Pictures Classics Picks Up ‘The Outrun’ with Saoirse Ronan for Fall 2024 Release
Sony Pictures Classics announced today that they will release Nora Fingscheidt’s The Outrun, the drama stars four-time Oscar nominee Saoirse Ronan, theatrically in North America in partnership with Stage 6 Films. The film will open in theaters nationwide on October 4, 2024. The film premiered at the Sundance Film Festival in January.
Based on the bestselling memoir by Amy Liptrot, who co-wrote the screenplay with Fingscheidt, The Outrun is an acutely honest drama about addiction and recovery. After a decade away in London, 29-year-old Rona (Saoirse Ronan) returns home to the Orkney Islands. Sober but lonely, she tries to suppress her memory of the events which set her on this journey of recovery. Slowly the mystical land enters her inner world and – one day at a time – Rona finds hope and strength in herself among the heavy gales and the bracingly cold sea.
The project reunites Sony Pictures Classics with Ronan, who previously starred in the 2018 film adaption of The Seagull.
The film also stars Paapa Essiedu (I May Destroy You), Stephen Dillane (Game of Thrones), and Saskia Reeves (Slow Horses).
“The Outrun is a film that means the world to everyone involved and we are delighted to have found a home at Sony Pictures Classics as our North American partners. Their taste and experience are inspiring, and we are excited to embark on this journey together,” said filmmakers Fingscheidt, Brocklehurst, Norris, Lowden, and Ronan.
Sony Pictures Classics said, “The Outrun is a stunning movie, beautifully directed by Nora Fingscheidt with a career-best performance from Saoirse Ronan. It is a privilege to bring this accomplished and moving drama to audiences everywhere this fall.”
Presented by Stage 6 Films, The Outrun is a BBC Film, Screen Scotland, and MBK Productions presentation and a Brock Media and Arcade Pictures production, in co-production with Weydemann Bros and Studiocanal. The film is produced by Sarah Brocklehurst, Dominic Norris, Jack Lowden, and Ronan.
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