Drunken Birds actor Marine Johnson and Italy’s Luca Colucci have nabbed lead roles in Kim Nguyen’s The Hourglass suspense drama, which has started production in The Canary Islands in Spain.
Johnson will play Edith Blais and Colucci is Luca Tacchetto, two travel companions who were kidnapped and held captive by a terrorist group in Mali for 465 days, before a near-suicidal escape. Nguyen adapted a book written by Blais, The Weight of Sand: My 450 Days Held Hostage in the Sahara, which detailed their time in captivity.
Also written by Nguyen, The Hourglass as a Canada-France co-production is the director’s ninth feature, and follows his Silver Bear winner in Berlin, War Witch, Two Lovers and a Bear, which bowed in Cannes; Eye on Juliet, which earned the European Critics Award in Venice; and The Hummingbird Project, which starred Jesse Eisenberg and Alexander Skarsgard as New York cousins who
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