EYES IN THE TREES Adds Four To New H.G. Wells-Based Sci-Fi Reimagining Filming Later This Year
Palisades Park Pictures is launching worldwide sales ahead of the Toronto International Film Festival (TIFF) market on the sci-fi thriller, Eyes in the Trees. Thailand is set for the new sci-fi thriller production later this year with a cast now joins Golden Globe winner Jonathan Rhys Meyers (Ambush, Match Point), Ashley Greene (The Twilight Saga, Bombshell), Thomas Kretschmann (Indiana Jones and the Dial of Destiny, King Kong), and Praya Lundberg (White Lotus – Season 3), with venerated screen talent, two-time Academy Award winner, Sir Anthony Hopkins (The Father, Silence of the Lambs).
Emmy Award winner Timothy Woodward Jr. (“Studio City,” Til Death Do Us Part) will direct the film which is billed as a reimagining of H.G. Wells’ seminal novel “The Island of Doctor Moreau” for today’s audience. The film follows Vince Henway (Meyers) and his former protégé-turned-ex Channing Arneau (Greene) as they lead their crew into the heart of Monkey Ko off the coast of Thailand. Also known as “The Island of Death” to the locals, the island holds rumors of forgotten government medical experiments and scientific genetic manipulations lead by Dr. Addis (Hopkins). What they find on the island is beyond their wildest expectations, a product of nightmares. Their search for answers quickly transforms into a fight for survival as they try to thwart Dr. Addis’ plan to “regress mankind,” killing the majority of earth’s human population.
Eyes In The Trees is written by B. Harrison Smith (Where the Scary Things Are), Mike Manning (Son of the South), and Dominic Burns (Airborne). Daemon Hillin (Which Brings Me to You) of Hillin Entertainment, is producing next to Simon Williams (The Magic Faraway Tree) of Ashland Hill, Artisha Mann-Cooper (Tripped Up) of Artman Cooper Productions, and Mike Manning. Landon B. Gorman of BGG Capital, Joe Simpson, Jonathan Bross, and Tamara Birkemoe will executive produce. Jonathan J. Cooper and Jeremy O’Keefe will co-produce.
Ashland Hill (The Magic Faraway Tree, The Crow, Sneaks) is coming aboard to finance alongside BGG Capital.
“Having the opportunity to work closely with the legendary Sir Anthony Hopkins and the rest of this incredible cast is a true honor. It has been deeply inspiring, and I’m genuinely grateful for the experience,” added Woodward Jr. “I look forward to sharing this film with audiences, knowing it’s being shaped by such remarkable talents in front of and behind the camera.”
“Eyes in the Trees is a bold, twisted elevated-genre film with a brilliant ensemble cast, including the incomparable Anthony Hopkins,” said Simon Williams, Ashland Hill’s Managing Partner. “We look forward to introducing global audiences to this chilling and creative reimagining seen through Timothy’s unique vision.”
Palisades Park Pictures’ TIFF slate also includes The Magic Faraway Tree starring Andrew Garfield, Claire Foy, Nicola Coughlan, Jessica Gunning and Jennifer Saunders, The Jim Henson Company’s live action monster tale Grendel, starring Jeff Bridges, Dave Bautista, Bryan Cranston, Thomasin McKenzie, Sam Elliott and T Bone Burnett, That’s Amore!starring John Travolta, Katherine Heigl and Christopher Walken, written and to be directed by two-time Academy Award winner Nick Vallelonga, and Philip Noyce’s action-adventure Fast Charlie starring Pierce Brosnan, and James Caan in his final on-screen performance.
Jonathan Rhys Meyers is repped by Artists International Group and Jackoway Austen Tyerman Wertheimer Mandelbaum Morris Bernstein Trattner Auerbach Hynick Jaime LeVine Sample & Klein; Thomas Kretschmann is repped by Independent Artist Group and Myman Greenspan Fox Rosenberg Mobasser Younger & Light; Ashley Greene is repped by The Gersh Agency, Untitled Management and Gang, Tyre, Ramer, Brown & Passman; Praya Lundberg is repped TalentWorks and Artist International Group.
BGG Capital is represented by DLA Piper LLP (US).
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