What we thought can be one of many hottest sales titles at TIFF 2024 has lastly offered and can get a major theatrical launch. Sony Pictures Classics will launch “On Swift Horses,” the interval struggle drama and romance from director Daniel Minahan, buying the film forward of it closing out the SXSW Film & TV Festival next month.
“On Swift Horses” contains a forged that’s as buzzy because it will get with Jacob Elordi, Daisy Edgar-Jones, and Will Poulter, and relies on a novel by Shannon Pufahl with a screenplay by Bryce Kass. The movie additionally stars Sasha Calle and Diego Calva.
The movie follows Muriel and her husband Lee as they’re starting a shiny new life in California upon Lee’s return from the Korean War. But their newfound stability is upended by the arrival of Lee’s charismatic brother, Julius, a wayward gambler with a secret previous. A harmful love triangle rapidly types. When Julius takes off in quest of the younger card cheat he’s fallen for, Muriel’s eager for one thing extra propels her right into a secret lifetime of her personal, playing on racehorses and exploring a love she by no means dreamed potential.
Following its premiere at TIFF, IndieWire praised the performances of Elordi and Edgar-Jones, and known as it a romance that eschewed conventions.
“‘On Swift Horses’ is a stunning tableau of almost-romances, weaving together ephemeral moments of magic with the pain that inevitably follows when the universe takes them away,” Christian Zilko wrote.
The movie is introduced by Ley Line Entertainment, FirstGen Content, Cor Cordium, The Dan Corp, Wavelength, and Killer Films. It is govt produced by Nate Kamiya, David Darby, Claude Amadeo, Randal Sandler, Chris Triana, Jenifer Westphal, Joe Plummer, Christine Vachon, Mason Plotts, Alvaro R. Valente, Bryce Kass, Lauren Shelton, Jeffrey Penman, Jacob Elordi, Daisy Edgar-Jones, Teddy Schwarzman, and John Friedberg, and produced by Peter Spears, Daniel Minahan, Tim Headington, Mollye Asher, Theresa Steele Page, and Michael D’ Alto.
Sony Pictures Classics, whereas quiet to this point at Sundance, has been lively on the gross sales market. Just yesterday the label acquired director Haifaa Al Mansour’s “Unidentified,” the most recent from the director of “Wadjda” and “The Perfect Candidate.” SPC is also driving excessive on its Oscar-nominee “I’m Still Here,” which is increasing theatrically in worldwide markets beginning at this time, February 7.
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