{"id":757087,"date":"2026-04-27T17:41:14","date_gmt":"2026-04-27T17:41:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/757087\/"},"modified":"2026-04-27T17:41:14","modified_gmt":"2026-04-27T17:41:14","slug":"sophie-thatcher-erin-kellyman-joe-alwyn-to-star-in-cavendish","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/757087\/","title":{"rendered":"Sophie Thatcher, Erin Kellyman &#038; Joe Alwyn To Star In \u2018Cavendish\u2019\u00a0"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto     \">\n\tChristopher Andrews (Bring Them Down) is directing the thriller <a href=\"https:\/\/deadline.com\/tag\/cavendish\/\" id=\"auto-tag_cavendish\" data-tag=\"cavendish\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Cavendish<\/a> and has recruited <a href=\"https:\/\/deadline.com\/tag\/sophie-thatcher\/\" id=\"auto-tag_sophie-thatcher\" data-tag=\"sophie-thatcher\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Sophie Thatcher<\/a> (Heretic), <a href=\"https:\/\/deadline.com\/tag\/erin-kellyman\/\" id=\"auto-tag_erin-kellyman\" data-tag=\"erin-kellyman\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Erin Kellyman<\/a> (28 Years Later: The Bone Temple), and <a href=\"https:\/\/deadline.com\/tag\/joe-alwyn\/\" id=\"auto-tag_joe-alwyn\" data-tag=\"joe-alwyn\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Joe Alwyn<\/a> to star in the feature.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto     \">\n\t<a href=\"https:\/\/deadline.com\/tag\/cornerstone\/\" id=\"auto-tag_cornerstone\" data-tag=\"cornerstone\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Cornerstone<\/a> will handle international sales and distribution and will launch sales at Cannes. CAA Media Finance is handling domestic.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto     \">\n\tCavendish is produced by Ivana MacKinnon and Emily Leo (How to Have Sex) from Wild Swim Films together with January Films\u2019 Rosa Attab and Jacqueline De Croy (You Were Never Really Here) alongside Klaudia Smieja-Rostworowska and Bogna Szewczyk-Skupien (The Brutalist) from the Polish production company Madants.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto     \">\n\tThe film was developed in collaboration with BBC Film and also received funding from the Polish Film Institute\u2019s cash rebate program. Production is set to begin in Poland in September.\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto     \">\n\tThe film\u2019s synopsis reads: 1645: Accused of witchcraft on her wedding day, a privileged young bride (Thatcher) is pursued by a ruthless witch hunter (Alwyn). Forced into an uneasy alliance with a sharp-witted poacher living on the margins of society (Kellyman), the two women fight back, turning their powerlessness into strength through violence, wit, and defiance.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto     \">\n\tAndrews is best known for his debut feature, Bring Them Down, which premiered at TIFF in 2024. The film stars Barry Keoghan and Christopher Abbott. It won the Douglas Hickox Award for Outstanding Debut Director at the 2024 British Independent Film Awards.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Christopher Andrews (Bring Them Down) is directing the thriller Cavendish and has recruited Sophie Thatcher (Heretic), Erin Kellyman&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":757088,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[33],"tags":[311376,185,231429,171,311377,102865,311378,67,132,68],"class_list":{"0":"post-757087","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-celebrities","8":"tag-cavendish","9":"tag-celebrities","10":"tag-cornerstone","11":"tag-entertainment","12":"tag-erin-kellyman","13":"tag-joe-alwyn","14":"tag-sophie-thatcher","15":"tag-united-states","16":"tag-unitedstates","17":"tag-us"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/116477905678737601","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/757087","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=757087"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/757087\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/757088"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=757087"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=757087"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=757087"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}