After lacking out on enjoying Glinda in Jon M. Chu’s “Depraved,” Amanda Seyfried is teaming up with the makers of one other buzzy 2024 movie for a musical: “The Brutalist” co-writer Mona Fastvold directs the musical “Ann Lee,” which she wrote with “Brutalist” co-writer and director, and her accomplice, Brady Corbet.
Seyfried stars within the title function within the historic movie, which shot in Hungary proper after “The Brutalist” and options authentic songs by Golden Globe-nominated “The Brutalist” composer Daniel Blumberg. Choreography comes from Celia Rowlson Corridor, the dancer who performed the grownup Sophie in “Aftersun.” The key indie movie has already wrapped manufacturing and is searching for a 2025 premiere, with gross sales and distribution but to be set. Deadline first reported the information. IndieWire confirmed the mission.
“Ann Lee” facilities on the non secular chief Ann Lee, who based the Shaker Motion within the late 1770s. Lee’s followers deemed her the feminine Jesus Christ, and her worshippers prayed by track and dance, therefore the becoming musical style.
The ensemble solid contains Christopher Abbott, Thomasin McKenzie, Lewis Pullman, Tim Blake Nelson, Stacy Martin, Matthew Beard, Scott Helpful, Viola Prettejohn, David Cale, and Jamie Bogyo.
Fastvold beforehand directed the interval queer romance “The World to Come,” starring Katherine Waterson and Vanessa Kirby, and which opened in 2021. Fastvold and Corbet each produce “Ann Lee.”
The movie is produced by Kaplan Morrison’s Andrew Morrison, Consumption Movies’ Joshua Horsfield, Proton Cinema’s Viktoria Petranyi, author/director Fastvold, and co-writer Corbet, alongside Mark Lampert, Mid March Media’s Gregory Jankilevitsch and Klaudia Smieja-Rostworowska, and Mizzel Media’s Lillian LaSalle. The chief producers embody Zelene Fowler and Michael Fowler for Mizzel Media, Kyle Stroud for Carte Blanche, Claude Amadeo, Randal Sandler, Michael D’Alto, Chris Triana, and Adam Paulsen for First Gen, Saskia Duff for Consumption Movies, Tom Ogden, Chris Renteria, and Oleg Nodelman. The co-producers are Daniel Lägersten of Gota Movie, Kristina Börjeson of Movie i Väst, and Maddie Browning.
“Ann Lee” is Seyfried’s first musical since 2018’s “Mamma Mia! Right here We Go Once more.” She additionally sang within the first “Mamma Mia!” movie in 2008 and “Les Miserables” in 2012.