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Mike Figgis To Suspend Disbelief With New Thriller
Shooting has begun on writer/director Mike Figgis’ London-based new film, ‘Suspension of Disbelief’.
Blurring the lines between reality and fiction, British writer/director Mike Figgis' Suspension of Disbelief follows a world renowned screenwriter and literature professor who becomes deeply implicated in the murder of a mysterious and beautiful young woman.
Content Film's Jamie Carmicheal described the film as an "incredibly beautiful psychological thriller", and stated that Mike Figgis was a "master director for this kind of controversial and intense material."
Suspension of Disbelief will bring together German-born actor Sebastian Koch and Lotte Verbeek, an actress best known for her role on the British television series The Borgias. The cast also consists of Rebecca Night (Wuthering Heights), Eoin Macken (Centurion), Julian Sands (The Girl With The Dragon Tattoo), Emilia Fox (The Pianist), Frances de la Tour (Harry Potter, Hugo), Lachlan Nieboer (Into The White), Kenneth Cranham (Valkyrie), and Gregory Cox (X-Men: First Class).
A sometimes controversial filmmaker, Figgis made his feature debut with the 1988 crime drama Stormy Monday, which starred Melanie Griffith, Tommy Lee Jones and Sting, and since then the director has shifted between the occasional Hollywood film (including the Richard Gere thriller Internal Affairs) and provocative low-budget indie dramas (the Oscar-winning Leaving Las Vegas, the provocative The Loss of Sexual Innocence, and the experimental split screen drama Time Code).
More recently, Figgis directed 2010's The Co(te)lette Film, an adaptation of the dance performance by Ann Van Den Broek. Since then, Figgis (a long-time advocate of digital filmmaking) has released two shorts and has another film in production, Seconds of Pleasure, starring Christina Hendricks, Brendan Fraser and Kristin Scott Thomas.
A release date has not yet been set.
Photo credit: Figgis, courtesy of Getty Images/Chris Jackson.
