A24 Developing ‘The Governesses’ With Lily-Rose Depp, Hoyeon Jung, and Renate Reinsve
A24 does not have any plans of slowing down.
Joe Talbot is directing The Governess for A24, starring Lily-Rose Depp (Netflix’s The King), Hoyeon Jung (Squid Game), and Cannes’ Best Actress winner Renate Reinsve, from The Worst Person in the World. Talbot co-wrote the screenplay with Olivia Gatwood. From The Hollywood Reporter:
The film, to shoot in Spain, centers on three rebellious governesses who upend the household they work in and the minds of the boys in their care.
The result also has the trio igniting the imaginations of the bohemian couple who employ them and abandoning their charges for erotic adventures.
Talbot is mostly known for his previous directorial effort, The Last Black Man in San Francisco, a critical darling from 2019 that went unnoticed at the box office. Gatwood, on her end, does not have a lot of writing credits on IMDb, so there’s not much to be said about her. The movie will be co-financed by BBC Film and A24, with the latter being in charge of distribution. Ed Guiney and Andrew Lowe, from Element Pictures, will produce The Governesses, with Rob Richert of Talbot’s Longshot Features banner and Angus Lamont.
The independent studio is about to expand the critically-acclaimed Everything Everywhere All at Once into a wide release, after topping the per-theater charts for the past couple of weeks. Next month, they are opening Alex Garland’s latest movie, Men, with Academy Award-nominee Jessie Buckley, and after that, they are releasing three more movies this year, including Jesse Eisenberg’s directorial debut When You Finish Saving the World.
Miguel Fernández is a Spanish student that has movies as his second passion in life. His favorite movie of all time is The Lord of the Rings, but he is also a huge Star Wars fan. However, fantasy movies are not his only cup of tea, as authors like Scorsese, Fincher, Kubrick or Hitchcock have been an obsession for him since he started to understand the language of filmmaking. He is that guy who will watch a black and white movie, just because it is in black and white.
