EXCLUSIVE: Oscar winners and husband and spouse cinema royalty Javier Bardem (No Nation for Outdated Males) and Penélope Cruz (Vicky Cristina Barcelona) are set to reunite on display screen in psychological thriller Bunker from Oscar-winning writer-director Florian Zeller (The Father).
FilmNation Leisure will launch worldwide gross sales on behalf of Blue Morning Photos and MOD Producciones on the upcoming Cannes Market, with CAA Media Finance and WME Unbiased dealing with home rights.
In Bunker, when an architect accepts a morally ambiguous challenge — constructing a survivalist bunker for a tech billionaire — his spouse begins to query their marriage after 17 years collectively. The movie is described as “a thriller that delves into the emotional and ethical challenges a pair faces amid the tensions of the world round them, exploring the fears, doubts, and dilemmas that outline our period”.
Zeller wrote the English-language challenge particularly for Cruz and Bardem who themselves have been married for near 17 years.
Zeller stated: “I wished to inform the story of a wedding and was deeply compelled to work with a real-life couple. I instantly was drawn to the concept of working with Javier Bardem and Penélope Cruz, two of essentially the most gifted actors working right now, who additionally occur to be one of the vital iconic {couples}. I wrote Bunker for them. This movie will push the boundaries of narrative and emotional fact, blurring the traces between actuality and fiction in a manner that feels thrilling and deeply human.”
The long-lasting Spanish couple have starred reverse one another a number of instances throughout greater than three a long time, together with in movies Jamón, Jamón, Vicky Cristina Barcelona, Loving Pablo and Everyone Is aware of.
Blue Morning Photos’ Federica Sainte-Rose is about to supply alongside Fernando Bovaira and Simon de Santiago of MOD Producciones. Alice Dawson can even function a producer on the movie. Mariano Cohn, Gaston Duprat, Andres Duprat, Emanuel Nunez and Fernando Sokolowicz will executive-produce.
“What excites me most about working with Florian on Bunker is the daring new path he’s taking as a filmmaker. This challenge marks a transparent tonal shift — unsettling and cinematically daring, Bunker speaks to the evident contradictions that exist in trendy society,” stated Sainte-Rose. “The exploration of fears of the long run, from ecological threats to rising social inequality, makes this movie each pressing and related.”
Zeller is repped by CAA. Cruz is repped by CAA, Untitled, and Kuranda. Bardem is repped by WME and Goodman Genow.
