Saoirse Ronan is set to star in ‘The Outrun’, from “The Unforgivable” director Nora Fingscheidt. Ronan will play the role of Rona, a woman fresh out of rehab who, after more than a decade away, returns to Scotland’s wild Orkney Islands and to the sheep farm of her childhood.
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The film will be produced by Sarah Brocklehurst’s Brock Media alongside Ronan, Jack Lowden, and Dominic Norris. Jonas Weydemann and Jakob D. Weydemann of Germany’s Weydemann Bros. will co-produce together with BBC Film and Screen Scotland.
Ronan said Liptrot’s voice drew her to the project. She praised her “unusual way of seeing things in a way that perhaps you only can when you’ve been to the darkest place you can go within yourself.”
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Protagonist Pictures is handling worldwide sales and will introduce at the European Film Market, co-repping North American sales with CAA Media Finance.
Deadline reported the news first.
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