international<\/a> sales and will launch the title at the upcoming European Film Market in Berlin, with CAA representing U.S. rights. The film is being positioned for a top-tier festival launch later this year.<\/p>\n\n\t\u201cAn unrelenting crime thriller that grips from the first page, The Exiles marks Midi Z\u2019s first English-language feature and a confident expansion of his distinctive visual style onto the international stage,\u201d said Shane Kelly, Mister Smith\u2019s SVP of international sales. \u201cAnchored by an exceptional caliber of cast and creative collaborators behind the camera, the film unites auteur ambition with a muscular genre narrative.\u201d<\/p>\n
\n\tMidi Z was born in Myanmar but came of age in Taiwan, where he has built a career as one of the territory\u2019s most distinctive filmmakers. His breakthrough came with the edgy drug drama Ice Poison (2014), which premiered in Berlin and later became Taiwan\u2019s official Oscar submission. He followed that with the immigrant saga The Road to Mandalay (2016), which launched in Venice, and Nina Wu (2018), a psychological thriller that bowed in Cannes\u2019 Un Certain Regard section.<\/p>\n
\n\t\u201cThe Exiles has been an exhilarating new experience for me as a filmmaker. It reflects the tumultuous world we\u2019re in, and follows a character\u2019s quest to begin a new life within it,\u201d Z said in a statement issued from set. \u201cI took inspiration from real crime incidents in Asia to weave together a tale of contradicting forces \u2014 love and exploitation, greed and fragility, darkness and hope.\u201d<\/p>\n
\n\tHe added: \u201cIt\u2019s my great privilege to create with this amazing team, from Sam and David, to my longtime collaborator Ke-Xi, to Ed and Hank behind the camera \u2014 all of whom I\u2019ve long admired \u2014 and to be able to bring this special production to my hometown of Taipei.\u201d<\/p>\n
\n\tThe director co-wrote The Exiles with Ke-Xi Wu, his frequent collaborator and past lead of Ice Poison, The Road to Mandalay and Nina Wu, as well as the 2024 Berlin Golden Bear contender Black Tea, from Oscar nominee Abderrahmane Sissako (Timbuktu).<\/p>\n
\n\tProducers on The Exiles include Anita Gou (The Farewell), Tom Heller (Foxcatcher), Claudia Tseng and Midi Z, with Killer Films\u2019 Christine Vachon (Materialists, Carol), Gabi Meyers (A Different Man) and Ke-Xi Wu executive producing. The film is being made with support and financing from the Taiwan Creative Content Agency (TAICCA).<\/p>\n
\n\tThe Exiles adds to a busy lineup of projects for Worthington, who can currently be seen worldwide in his iconic role as Jake Sully in Avatar: Fire and Ash. He will next appear in David Mackenzie\u2019s thriller Fuze, Netflix\u2019s Harlan Coben series I Will Find You and Alejandro Monteverde\u2019s feature Zero A.D.<\/p>\n
\n\tThe ever-versatile and prolific Duchovny, meanwhile, is currently in Sundance supporting his co-starring turn in Jay Duplass\u2019 ensemble drama See You When I See You, alongside Kumail Nanjiani, Kaitlyn Dever, Lucy Boynton, Cooper Raiff and Hope Davis. He can also be seen on Prime Video\u2019s psychological thriller series Malice, opposite Jack Whitehall and Carice van Houten \u2014 as well as on The X-Files and Californication reruns worldwide. In mid-2024, he also launched his podcast Fail Better, about failure in all its forms, and published a collection of poetry, About Time, last fall.<\/p>\n
\n\tWorthington is repped by WME, Anonymous Content and Hansen Jacobson, while Duchovny is with Anonymous Content, CAA and Nelson Davis. Midi Z and Ke-Xi Wu are both represented by CAA.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Sam Worthington and David Duchovny have joined Taiwanese actress Ke-Xi Wu to star in The Exiles, the English-language…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":308449,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[268],"tags":[2786,151125,434,151126,18,117,19,1452,17],"class_list":{"0":"post-308448","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-celebrities","8":"tag-asia","9":"tag-berlin-international-film-festival","10":"tag-celebrities","11":"tag-efm","12":"tag-eire","13":"tag-entertainment","14":"tag-ie","15":"tag-international","16":"tag-ireland"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@ie\/115974199269153104","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/308448","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=308448"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/308448\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/308449"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=308448"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=308448"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=308448"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}