Fresh off his first-ever Oscar nomination for The Brutalist, Guy Pearce has already wrapped his next feature: Blurred, an erotic thriller set in New York’s fashion world.
Pearce and Alex Pettyfer (Magic Mike, The Ministry of Ungentlemanly Warfare) co-star in the feature, written and directed by Ben Cookson (Waiting for Anya) alongside Maria Pedraza (Netflix’s Money Heist), and Adewale Akinnuoye-Agbaje (Suicide Squad, HBO’s His Dark Materials).
Produced by Pettyfer and James Ireland for Dark Dreams Entertainment and Yariv Lerner (Hellboy, Rambo: Last Blood) for Film Forage, Blurred wrapped production last summer in the U.K.
Cloud9 Studios is handling international sales and will be pitching the project to buyers at Berlin’s European Film Market next week.
Details on the project are scarce, with Cloud9 only describing it as a “smart and sexy thriller” set against “the hustle and flow of New York’s fashion world.” Cloud9 will screen the first footage of the film to buyers in a private presentation at the EFM.
Pearce is enjoying some of the best reviews in his career, as well as his first-ever Oscar nomination for best supporting actor for his performance in Brady Corbet’s The Brutalist, where he plays the snobbish and callous industrialist Harrison Lee Van Buren Sr..
The always-busy Pearce has multiple projects in the pipeline, including the Ned Crowley-directed supernatural thriller Killing Faith, where he stars alongside Bill Pullman and DeWanda Wise; and Simon Stone’s Netflix feature The Woman in Cabin 10, co-starring Keira Knightley and Hannah Waddingham.
Cloud9 Studios’ Berlin slate also includes includes Barry Levinson’s Assassination, starring Jessica Chastain, Brendan Fraser, and Al Pacino, the romantic comedy Under the Stars starring Toni Collette and Andy Garcia, and the supernatural horror thriller Unmerciful Good Fortune starring Rosario Dawson.
Pettyfer is repped by Giacomo Palazzo at Independent Talent Group and James Ireland at Dark Dreams Entertainment; Pearce is repped by CAA in the US and Independent Talent in the UK; Pedraza is repped by Independent Talent Group; Akinnuoye-Agbaje is repped by IAG, Accelerate and Brillstein Entertainment Partners.
