Hot Armando Iannucci Package Heading To AFM With James McAvoy, Alicia Vikander & Taron Egerton – The Dish

EXCLUSIVE: We’re getting word that a great package is heading to the American Film Market, with Armando Iannucci directing and writing and James McAvoy, Oscar winner Alicia Vikander and Emmy nominee Taron Egerton starring. It will rep the first time this murderer’s row of actors have worked with the award-winning Iannucci. Details for the project from sources are being held close to the vest, other than that Iannucci’s latest is best described as a conspiracy thriller. I understand that BAFTA winner Kevin Loader, who produced Iannucci’s movies In the Loop, The Death of Stalin and The Personal History of David Copperfield, as well as the HBO TV series Avenue 5, is producing. FilmNation and UTA are handling sales heading into AFM. FilmNation and Loader worked with Iannucci previously on David Copperfield. Iannucci’s feature and TV canon in known for its political-comedy absurdity that holds a mirror to whatever times we’re weathering, whether it’s his feature In the Loop, for which he notched an Oscar nomination in Adapted Screenplay; his BAFTA-nominated The Death of Stalin; or HBO’s Julia Louis-Dreyfus comedy series Veep, which won the UTA-repped filmmaker two Emmys and two WGA awards. Watch on Deadline McAvoy has his feature directorial debut California Schemin‘, in which he also starred, out in theaters. His feature credits include Split, Atonement, Speak No Evil, It: Chapter Two, Glass and playing the younger Doctor Xavier in Marvel’s X-Men franchise. He won the Young Rising Star BAFTA Award in 2006 and was Golden Globe nominated in the Best Actor Drama category for his turn in Joe Wright’s Atonement. He is repped by UTA, United Agents and Sloane Weber Offer Dern. Vikander, who won an Oscar for Supporting Actress for Focus Features’ The Danish Girl, starred recently in the Korean sci-fi hit and Cannes premiere Hope, as well as the feature The Last Day and The Echo Chamber. She is repped by UTA. Egerton was Emmy nominated for Lead Actor in a Limited/Anthology Series for Apple TV’s Black Bird. He broke out playing Elton John in the Oscar-winning Rocketman. He’s starred in 20th Century Studios’ Kingsman franchise, Illumination’s Sing franchise, and won rave reviews at TIFF for his turn recently in Jonathan Schey’s Everybody Wants to F*ck Me. He is repped by WME, Range Media Partners and Sloane Offer Weber Dern.