EXCLUSIVE: Meredith Hagner (Search Party), Guy Burnet (Landman) and Freya Mavor (Skins) have joined Scorn, Topic Studios‘ erotic thriller from Search Party‘s Sarah-Violet Bliss.
Character details are under wraps. As previously announced, Adria Arjona and Kingsley Ben-Adir lead the cast.
Currently in production in the UK, the film follows a woman who begins a passionate affair with a married man. When he then tries to re-cast their love as just a fling, she refuses to go away quietly.
Bliss is directing from her own script. Topic Studios is fully financing and producing alongside Dylan Clark and Brian Williams for Dylan Clark Productions (The Penguin, The Batman: Part I & Part II), as well as Amy Jackson (Aftersun) of Unified. The deal was negotiated by UTA and CAA.
One of the stars of Bliss’ acclaimed dark comedy series Search Party for TBS and HBO Max, Hagner has most recently been seen starring opposite Vince Vaughn in the first season of Apple TV’s comedy Bad Monkey. She’s coming off production on Will Arbery’s FX pilot 7 Sisters, where she’s a series regular opposite Elizabeth Olsen, and is now shooting the lead role in Stephen Cone’s new film Systems of Color. She is repped by UTA, Suskin/Karshan Management, and Felker Toczek Suddleson.
Burnet is an English actor seen in Christopher Nolan’s Oppenheimer who currently stars in Season 2 of Paramount+’s critically acclaimed drama Landman, co-created by Taylor Sheridan. Upcoming, he’ll be seen starring opposite Jeff Daniels in the political thriller Reykjavík, a retelling of the 1986 Reagan-Gorbachev summit at the height of the Cold War. Also set to appear in the actioner The Beast, led by Samuel L. Jackson, he is repped by The Way, Lasher Group, and Paul Hastings.
A Scottish actress known for roles in series like Skins and Industry, Mavor will next appear in Dalloway, directed by Yann Gozlan. Also recently wrapping on Netflix’s Pride and Prejudice series, where she plays Jane Bennet opposite Emma Corrin and Olivia Colman, she is repped by UTA, Agence Adequat, and B-Side Management.
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