Cate blanchett to star in ‘the new boy’; her dirty films will co-produce with scarlett pictures

Cate Blanchett’s Dirty Films and Scarlett Pictures are partnering to co-produce _The New Boy _with Blanchett attached to star and Warwick Thornton writing and directing. Deborah Mailman and

Wayne Blair join Blanchett in the ensemble, which is set to begin filming in October in South Australia. Roadshow Films will be distributing for Australia and New Zealand, CAA Media Finance

and UTA will be handling sales for North America, and The Veterans is on board to manage sales for the remainder of the globe. Blanchett, Andrew Upton and Georgie Pym will be producing for

Dirty Films, and Kath Shelper will produce for Scarlett Pictures. “What a joy to finally be collaborating with Warwick — a filmmaker whose warmth, wit and humanity we have admired for so

very long,” Blanchett said. “We can’t wait to be on the ground with him and the wonderful Kath Shelper to realise this startling story.” Set in 1940s Australia, the film depicts depicts the

mesmeric story of a 9-year-old Aboriginal orphan boy who arrives in the dead of night at a remote monastery run by a renegade nun (Blanchett). The new boy’s presence disturbs the delicately

balanced world in this story of spiritual struggle and the cost of survival. WATCH ON DEADLINE “The idea for the story of this little boy has been flickering in my imagination for a long

time,” said Thornton. “Kath and I are beyond excited to be working with Cate and the Dirty Films mob to put him up on the big screen where he belongs.” Thornton is best known for _Sweet

Country_, for which he won the Special Jury Prize at the Venice Film Festival and the Platform Prize at the Toronto International Film Festival in 2017. Thornton also directed _Samson and

Delilah_, for which he won the Caméra d’Or at the 2009 Cannes Film Festival. Both films won the AACTA Award for Best Film from the Australian Academy of Cinema and Television Arts. Blanchett

and Dirty Films are represented at CAA. Thornton is represented by UTA and attorney Darren Trattner. Mailman is represented at Sue Barnett and Associates. Blair is represented at

Independent Talent Group, UTA and Shanahan Management.