Jessie Buckley and Paul Mescal to Reunite for ‘Hold On To Your Angels’ from Benh Zeitlin
After having just co-starred in last year’s Hamnet, Oscar winner Jessie Buckley and Oscar nominee Paul Mescal are set to reunite for Hold On To Your Angels, a new film to be directed by Oscar nominee Benh Zeitlin (Beasts of the Southern Wild) from Plan B Entertainment (Moonlight) and Alex Coco (Anora).
After having just co-starred in last year’s Hamnet, Best Actress Oscar winner Jessie Buckley and Oscar nominee Paul Mescal are set to reunite for ‘Hold On To Your Angels,’ a new film to be directed by Oscar nominee Benh Zeitlin (Beasts of the Southern Wild) from Plan B Entertainment (Moonlight) and Alex Coco (Anora).
Set on the edge of South Louisiana, Hold on to Your Angels “follows a hell-bound outlaw (Mescal) and a ferocious shepherd of lost souls (Buckley) who fall in catastrophic love as their crumbling bayou paradise drags them under.”
“Hold on to Your Angels is the most impossible love story I’ve ever witnessed — an outlaw romance for the end of America, set on the crumbling edge of South Louisiana,” said Zeitlin. “I’ve been dreaming of telling it since its hero, Pam Harper, walked into an audition for ‘Beasts of the Southern Wild’ 17 years ago. It’s a love letter to an endangered way of life — and a rallying cry for empathy across a fractured planet.”
Added Plan B: “Benh Zeitlin absolutely stunned us and the world at large with the cosmic sorcery of Beasts of the Southern Wild. With Hold on to Your Angels, Benh has set his powerful mix of intense realism, myth and magic against the large scale of an epic love story. This is a writer-director with a vision for the ages, and we could not be more proud to be by his side to make this film with Jessie and Paul.”
Buckley is currently shooting Three Incestuous Sisters with Dakota Johnson, Saoirse Ronan and Josh O’Connor from Alice Rohrwacher and Mescal has been filming the four-film Beatles biopics for Oscar winner Sam Mendes.
Plan B will produce with Alex Coco under his Rapt Film banner. The Veterans is handling international sales, with domestic distribution rights represented by CAA Media Finance.
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