ACADEMY AWARD® NOMINEE TONI COLLETTE SET TO JOIN ANNA KENDRICK IN JOE PENNA’S SCI-FI THRILLER ‘STOWAWAY’
XYZ Films and CAA
Media Finance announce Academy Award® nominee Toni Collette has joined
Anna Kendrick in the cast of the sci-fi thriller
STOWAWAY, which marks the second feature film from Joe Penna and Ryan Morrison, the duo behind the Cannes Official Selection
Arctic. The film now boasts two Academy Award® nominated actresses in lead roles, with additional casting currently underway.
STOWAWAY will be directed by Joe Penna and co-written by Penna
& Ryan Morrison. Morrison will also serve as executive producer. XYZ
Films will produce alongside augenschein Filmproduktion and RISE
PICTURES, with RISE Visual Effects Studios providing VFX. XYZ and CAA
Media Finance are arranging financing for the film and handling
worldwide sales at the coming EFM in Berlin.
On a mission headed to Mars, an unintended stowaway accidentally
causes severe damage to the spaceship's life support systems. Facing
dwindling resources and a potentially grim outcome, a medical researcher
(Kendrick) emerges as the only dissenting voice against the clinical
logic of both her commander (Collette) and the ship's biologist.
Multiple award-winner Collette is best known for roles in
THE SIXTH SENSE, for which she was nominated for an Academy Award® for Best Supporting Actress,
LITTLE MISS SUNSHINE, and most recently the critically-acclaimed Sundance hit
HEREDITARY, released by A24. She will next be seen in the Netflix film
VELVET BUZZSAW with Jake Gyllenhaal and Renee Russo, and Lionsgate’s
KNIVES OUT with Daniel Craig, Chris Evans and Ana de Armas.
XYZ Films will be in Berlin at EFM 2019 with an additional slate of films that include
SYNCHRONIC starring Anthony Mackie and Jamie Dornan,
PRISONERS OF THE GHOSTLAND starring Nicolas Cage, and
THE EAST starring Marwan Kenzari and Martijn Lakemeier.
Collette is represented by CAA, United Management and Finley Management;
Kendrick is represented by CAA; and Penna and Morrison are represented
by CAA and Management 360.
Bleecker Street will release
ARCTIC in selects theaters on February 1
st.