LD Entertainment Reunites with Sean Ellis, Casts Boyd Holbrook, Kelly Reilly, and Alistair Petrie for Horror Film Eight For Silver

LD ENTERTAINMENT REUNITES WITH WRITER-DIRECTOR SEAN ELLIS AND CASTS BOYD HOLBROOK, KELLY REILLY, AND ALISTAIR PETRIE FOR HORROR FILM “EIGHT FOR SILVER”

Los Angeles, California — April 5, 2019 — LD Entertainment announced they are reuniting with writer-director Sean Ellis (Anthropoid, Metro Manilla) to produce his original script EIGHT FOR SILVER. Boyd Holbrook (Narcos, Logan, The Free World), Kelly Reilly (Yellowstone, True Detective, Flight), and Alistair Petrie (Sex Education, The Night Manager, Rogue One: A Star Wars Story), have been cast as the leads for the 19th century horror. They are currently in pre-production on the film. Ellis previously worked with LD Entertainment in 2016 when he wrote and directed Anthropoid.

EIGHT FOR SILVER, a period piece set in the countryside of France, follows the story of John McBride (Holbrook), a pathologist assigned to determine if the body of a 14-year-old boy found in the woods is the work of a man or a beast. When McBride confirms that the cause of death was a wild animal, he asks to stay on for further investigation. McBride is then welcomed as a guest into the family home of a local wealthy landowner, Seamus Laurent (Petrie), and his wife Isabelle (Reilly), who share that their own son, a friend of the victim, has been missing for two weeks. Distraught and determined to keep her daughter safe, Isabelle finds comfort in the arrival of John while he is forced to confront the horrors of his own dark past.

“I am beyond thrilled to bring the world of EIGHT FOR SILVER to the screen. It is my hope that this reinvention of the werewolf legend will be an unsettling portrait of a community grappling with unexplained horrors, as well as a deeper exploration of the animalistic impulses that manifest from our darkest demons” said Ellis.

Production is set to begin in April in Cognac, France. Mickey Liddell and Pete Shilaimon of LD Entertainment are producers and the studio is fully financing the production.

“Sean’s clear vision for this film is spectacular and haunting,” Pete Shilaimon shared. “Working with him to reimagine this classic horror mythology has been a blast.”

Beyond Ellis, the studio has hired top talent behind-the-camera including costume designer Madeline Fontaine (Jackie, Amelie), Jean-Christophe Spadaccini (The Bourne Identity, At Eternity’s Gate) for their make-up effects and animatronics team, as well as editor Yorgos Mavropsaridis (The Favourite, The Lobster).

LD Entertainment Reunites with Sean Ellis, Casts Boyd Holbrook, Kelly Reilly, and Alistair Petrie for Horror Film <i>Eight For Silver</i> 2 — Sean Ellis.
Photo by Marion Curtis / Starpix – © Marion Curtis / Starpix

ABOUT SEAN ELLIS

Oscar and BAFTA-nominated director Sean Ellis started taking pictures when he was 11. Trained as a still life photographer, he moved to London from Brighton in 1994 becoming one of the new generations of fashion photographers who were most sought-after in the late nineties.

Sean made the switch from photography to film with a string of award-winning commercials and short films. His credits for feature length films are as follows: CASHBACK (2006) The feature length film based on the original Oscar nominated short film. THE BRØKEN (2008), staring Lena Headey (300, Game of Thrones) and Oscar nominated actor Richard Jenkins (The Visitor, Burn After Reading) and premiered at the Sundance Film Festival in January 2008.

METRO MANILA (2013), Filmed in Philippines and entirely in the Philippino language, the film won the World Cinema Audience prize at the 2013 Sundance film festival. Nominated for 5 British Independent Film Awards (BIFA) in 2013 – It went onto to win Best Film, Best Director and Best Achievement in Production. The film also earned Ellis his second BAFTA nomination for Best Film Not in the English Language and was selected by BAFTA as the official UK submission to the 2014 Oscars for the foreign language film category.

His most recent film ANTHROPOID (2016), Starred Cillian Murphy, Jamie Dornan and Toby Jones. Anthropoid is a World War II thriller based on the extraordinary true story about the Czech resistance and the mission to assassinate SS General Reinhard Heydrich, the main architect behind the Final Solution and the Reich’s third in command after Hitler and Himmler.

LD Entertainment is repped by attorney Eric Thompson. Ellis is repped by ICM Partners and Independent Talent. Holbrook is repped by CAA and Morris, Yorn, Barnes, Levine, Krintzman, Rubenstein, Kohner & Gellman. Reilly is repped by ICM Partners and Troika. Petrie is repped by Roxane Vacca Management and Link Entertainment.

ABOUT LD ENTERTAINMENT

LD Entertainment is an independent film studio that finances the development and production of elevated and thoughtful films and television. Founded in 2007 by veteran television and film executive Mickey Liddell, LD Entertainment has produced numerous award-winning films covering all genres.

LD’s past films include the Academy Award nominated “Jackie”, starring Natalie Portman and directed by Pablo Larrain, “The Zookeeper’s Wife” starring Jessica Chastain and directed by Niki Caro, “Megan Leavey” starring Kate Mara and directed by Gabriela Cowperthwaite and “Forever My Girl” starring Alex Roe and Jessica Rothe. Additional past films include “Ben Is Back” starring Julia Roberts and Lucas Hedges, “Anthropoid” with Cillian Murphy and Jamie Dornan, “The Grey” starring Liam Neeson, “Risen” with Joseph Fiennes and Cliff Curtis, the ensemble family comedy “Dog Days” directed by Ken Marino, and “The Miracle Season” starring Helen Hunt. LD has also produced and received Oscar nominations for the poignant and complex films “Biutiful” starring Javier Bardem and “Albert Nobbs” starring Glenn Close. Their upcoming films in 2019 include Max Minghella’s “Teen Spirit” starring Elle Fanning, Julia Hart’s “Fast Color” starring Gugu Mbatha-Raw, and the “Judy” biopic starring Renee Zellwegger.

LD Entertainment is currently in pre-production in France on the film “Eight For Silver.”

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