“Bikini Blue” director Jarek Marszewski will direct the Twenties-set euthanasia drama “Iron Ribbon,” for which Los Angeles-based Egyptian actor Mohamed Karim is hooked up and Tom Hughes (“The English”) is in superior talks.
The English-language romantic thriller, which is being produced by London-based Daniella Gonella and Jay Michaelson’s DG Productions, is predicated on the true story of rising Polish stage star Stanislawa Uminska, who in 1924 killed her cancer-stricken fiancé (the dashing painter, critic and author Jan Zynowski) in Paris upon his request as an act of euthanasia. She then stood trial, however was let loose by the French court docket.
Karim is thought throughout the Center East as a former host of expertise present “The Voice of Arabia” and for roles in standard Ramadan soaps. He’s concurrently pursuing a Hollywood profession that has led to roles alongside Nicolas Cage in 2019 motion film “A Rating to Settle” and with Bruce Willis in “A Day to Die.”
In “Iron Ribbon,” Karim will play Dr. Roussy, who “tries every part to save lots of Zynowski,” Gonella mentioned at Cannes Movie Pageant, the place she and producing accomplice Donia Youssef have finalized funding on the roughly $5 million image. Karim — who “apart from being an important actor, additionally has an Egyptian medical college diploma,” as Gonella identified — will probably be serving as government producer on “Ribbon.”
Tom Hughes, who is thought for taking part in Prince Albert in TV drama “Victoria” and Thomas Trafford in BBC and Amazon Prime miniseries “The English” — and is at present capturing Roland Emmerich’s “These About to Die” — has signed a letter of intent to play the lead position of Zynowski in “Ribbon,” although the deal just isn’t closed, based on Gonella.
Casting for the opposite lead position, Stanislawa Uminska, remains to be underway.
Director Marszewski’s second function “Bikini Blue,” about an English Polish couple in search of to construct a brand new life in postwar Britain, garnered reward on the competition circuit. He additionally directed Polish TV sequence “The Conspirators” and “The Homicide Fee.”
“Iron Ribbon” will take viewers on an emotional rollercoaster,” Marszewski mentioned in his director’s assertion, “providing well timed insights right into a debate that has by no means been extra related in society.” The screenplay is by British author Adam Howes (“The Finish of All Issues”).
The “Iron Ribbon” manufacturing crew includes of Oscar-nominated editor John Wilson (“Billy Elliot”); cinematographer Michal Sobocinski (“The Conspirators”); and Oscar-winning sound designer Glenn Freemantle (“Gravity”).
The plan is for capturing to start out within the U.Ok. in April 2024.
