EXCLUSIVE: Harry Melling (Wolf Corridor) is about to star reverse Barry Keoghan and Riley Keough in Butterfly Jam, the brand new drama marking the English-language debut of Cannes prize-winner Kantemir Balagov (Beanpole), sources inform Deadline.
Character particulars are below wraps. Set towards the backdrop of New Jersey’s Circassian group, the movie revolves round a teen whose father and aunt run a struggling diner specializing in Circassian delicacies. When he’s not serving to out within the restaurant, the boy is coaching to grow to be knowledgeable wrestler. After one in every of his father’s misguided schemes goes fallacious, he’s compelled to tackle board his father’s failings as he finds himself confronted with a violence that may pressure him to develop up sooner than he would really like.
The venture hails from Alexander Rodnyansky’s AR Content material, which is financing, in addition to Emilia Pérez producer Pascal Caucheteux’s Why Not Productions, and Goodfellas, which is dealing with gross sales.
Presently co-starring in Wolf Corridor: The Mirror and the Mild (PBS/Masterpiece), Melling has lately been seen enjoying Edgar Allan Poe in Scott Cooper’s The Pale Blue Eye, with extra roles in Joel Coen’s The Tragedy of Macbeth, the Coen Brothers’ The Ballad of Buster Scruggs, and Netflix’s Emmy winner The Queen’s Gambit.
Subsequent up, the British actor might be seen starring reverse Alexander Skarsgård in Harry Lighton’s buzzed characteristic debut, Pillion, which might be launched by A24 within the U.S. and Cornerstone internationally. He’s repped by Curtis Brown Group within the UK and Goodman, Genow, Schenkman.
