French director Romain Gavras (The World Is Yours, Athena) is making his first English-language film and has rounded up an impressive cast. Sacrifice will be co-written and directed by Gavras, and it’s set to star Chris Evans, Anya Taylor-Joy, Salma Hayek Pinault, and Brendan Fraser.
Sacrifice is reportedly a satire from a script by Gavras and Will Arbery. The logline reads: “a high-end charity gala is raided by a violent group of radicals on a mystical quest to fulfill a prophecy”.
Gavras tells the outlet, “It came from a very simple idea, which is every time you go to those events, whether it’s in Cannes, whether it’s a charity event and where you have all those people, the mischievous side of me, and I think the audience as well when they’re watching those events, they kind of want something to go really horribly wrong. When you see glitzy people and all the shininess and all that stuff, you want that moment to be twisted, right?.”
“I was raised myself on Greek mythology,” Gavras continues. “Instead of being fed new movies when I was a kid, my parents were telling me these Greek tales, where a mom eats her kids and of sacrifices to volcanoes. Those things fed me and led to the idea of having a group of kids that have a very specific agenda that comes from a very mythological kind of belief system. There is the fondness of satire, and Will is amazing at the sharpness of the tone of the characters and the humanity of them. I am so excited by our cast.”
Production on Sacrifice will begin this September. Iconoclast and Robert Walak, the president of Iconoclast’s Film and TV division, will produce with Gavras. Taylor-Joy and Evans also produce, with Arbery as executive producer.
