EXCLUSIVE: Former Concourse executive Grant Mohrman has launched U.S. sales and production firm Gravel Lake Entertainment with Cannes regular Arnaud Desplechin’s upcoming film The Thing That Hurts as its debut sales title.
Filming is due to begin later this month in France and Belgium on Desplechin’s feature, which has been described as “a Parisian psychodrama where grief, guilt, and love collide among strangers bound by a haunting secret”.
Casting is being kept under wraps for now but a number of high-profile talent have been speculated online. Among those to have been connected to the project over the years but won’t be in the film, we’re told, are Léa Seydoux and Jason Schwartzman. Mohrman, who will handle international sales, told us “the film has a strong international ensemble in place” and added that further details would be revealed shortly. He also said the film would “mark a new chapter for Desplechin”.
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