Neon Lands Ryusuke Hamaguchis Next Movie All of a Sudden
Neon has landed the rights to Ryusuke Hamaguchi’s next film, All Of A Sudden, the latest from the director behind the Oscar-winning Drive My Car. Neon landed the North American rights to the film, which is currently in post-production, with plans for a theatrical release. Virginie Efira and Tao Okamoto star in the film, playing…
Neon has landed the rights to Ryusuke Hamaguchi’s next film, All Of A Sudden, the latest from the director behind the Oscar-winning Drive My Car.
Neon landed the North American rights to the film, which is currently in post-production, with plans for a theatrical release.
Virginie Efira and Tao Okamoto star in the film, playing the head of a French care home and a Japanese theater director, respectively. Hamaguchi wrote the script with Léa Le Dimna, which is loosely inspired by a collection of real-life exchanged letters published in the book When Life Suddenly Takes a Turn: Twenty Letters Between a Philosopher with Terminal Cancer and Medical Anthropologist by Makiko Miyano and Maho Isono.
David Gauquié, Julien Deris, Jean-Luc Ormières and Renan Artukmaç produced for Paris-based Cinefrance Studios, along with Hiroko Matsuda, Kosuke Oshida and Yuji Sadai for Japan’s Office Shirous & Bitters End. Bettina Brokemper also produced for Germany’s Heimatfilm and Joseph Rouschop for Belgium’s Tarantula.
Hamaguchi’s last directed Evil Does Not Exist, which won the Silver Lion at the 2023 Venice Film Festival. Neon will next release Boots Riley’s I Love Boosters, which is set to open the SXSW film festival and stars Keke Palmer, Demi Moore, Naomi Ackie and Taylour Paige.
Cinefrance negotiated the deal on behalf of the filmmakers.
