Exclusive: Goodfellas has acquired global sales rights to the Emilio Estevez product The Road: Chapter Twowhich reunites the actor and director with the cast members of his original 2010 film, namely Father Martin Sheen, Yorick van Wageningen, and James Nesbitt.
The sequel returns to protagonist Tom (Sheen) a decade after he made his first pilgrimage on El Camino de Santiago, Spain in the footsteps of his deceased son Daniel (Estevez), where he reconnects with his walking companions Joost (Van Wageningen) and Jack (Nesbitt).
Now he joins MSF in northern Nigeria, where he performs surgery in a war zone, and is sent a copy of Jack’s best-selling book based on their shared experience, in which a disturbing secret is revealed.
Angry, he leaves to search for Jack and find answers to the questions that have haunted him for a decade. His journey reunites him with Ghost and takes them through Amsterdam, Dublin, Brussels and France before returning to Spain and the Camino.
Estevez, who revealed to Deadline last year that he had regained his rights method For the re-release and sequel, he takes on writing and directing credits for the new film, which is produced by E2 Films.
The film is currently in pre-production. Shane Carter Cohn is represented at CAA and Estevez is represented by Rob Klein at Sheppard Mullen.
Goodfellas will also launch international sales for the debut film by Grammy Award-winning Somali-Canadian rapper and singer Kenan Warsame. Before from Republic Pictures, which will also handle domestic sales.
Maan Youssef Ahmed plays the role of a widow struggling to make a living as a shepherd with her son. When he is killed, he makes her feel guilty that she may have pushed him to his death. When the killer is caught, she rejects her right to revenge and chooses another form of retribution in a move that shocks the nation but opens a new door to the possibility of healing. Ahmed joins the cast Hassan Naguib (Sand Dunes: Part Two(And my knowledge is Rashid Alami)Sand dunes, Swimmers).
The film is produced by Alex Kurtzman and Jenny Lumet on behalf of 25 Stories, along with Andrea Calderwood (The last King of Scotland, the Constant Gardener) for boiler production. Morgan Ernst and Faye Stapleton are executive producers of Secret Hideout. The film, which is now in post-production, was shot by Academy Award-nominated cinematographer César Charlone (City of God, The constant gardener) Production in Africa wrapped in December.
More new additions to the menu include excitement Mexico 86 Written by Belgian-Guatemalan Cesar Díaz, who created a sensation with his drama of disappearances in the Guatemalan Civil War Our mothersWho won the Golden Camera Award at the Cannes Film Festival in 2019.
Mexico 86 Bérénice Bejo plays a Guatemalan rebel activist fighting against a corrupt military dictatorship, and who was forced to flee to Mexico in 1976, leaving her son behind. A decade later, he comes to live with her, forcing her to choose between her duties as a mother and her revolutionary activism.
Diaz drew inspiration from his personal story for the drama.
The film is produced by Need Productions (Clara Sola, our mothers) With tripod for production (Love according to Dalva), Pimienta films and Minito films (The eight mountains).
Goodfellas will also launch sales on the debut film by Scotland-based Portuguese director Laura Carrera On fallingThe film follows a Portuguese migrant warehouse worker in Edinburgh as she battles isolation and alienation that threaten her sense of self. The film was produced by Ken Loach and Rebecca O’Brien Sixteen Films.
Eric Kho’s regular film will also be unveiled at Cannes Spirit worldstarring Catherine Deneuve as a legendary singer who dies after performing at a sold-out show in Japan.
She finds herself in the spirit world where she will be guided by one of her biggest fans, Yuzu, played by Masaaki Sakai, world-famous as the star of the 1970s hit show. monkey.
Spirit world It is a joint production between the French company MI Movies (the truth), Singapore-based Zhao Wei Films, Japan’s Fourier Films, Knockonwood Inc., and Wild Orange Artists.
The film has just finished shooting in Japan. ARP Sélection had previously purchased the French rights.
Goodfellas is also running to rival the Berlinale Golden Bear Etranger language Directed by French director Claire Berger (Party girl, This is the love) As well as the drama by Chinese director Qiu Yang Some rain should fallThe film revolves around a housewife who is caught up in an escalating chain of events when she inadvertently injures an elderly woman at her daughter’s basketball game.
Other previously announced English-language titles include Olivier Masset-Depasse’s Largo Winch adventure Money price With Tomer Sisley and James Franco, and Charles Williams’ prison drama inside With Vincent Miller, Guy Pearce and Cosmo Jarvis.
Other upcoming French titles include the true tale of the Paris Museum of Modern Art heist by Dominique Pommard French job and Gianluca Giudice’s period drama the flood, following the last days of Marie Antoinette and their children on a temple tour in Paris; And Charlene Favier Oksanaabout Oksana Chachko, later co-founder of the militant feminist group Femen.
The company is also releasing Giovanni Aloi’s crime thriller Hunting land The film revolves around a student who gets caught up in an escalating score-line when he lands a job as a waiter at a gang-run hunting lodge that is a front for illegal poker nights and prostitution.
It’s the latest feature to come out of Wild West, a genre-focused joint venture between Goodfellas and Capricci, which he previously produced Vincent must die And The swarm.