Deadline’s Read the Screenplay series, which highlights the year’s most talked about screenplays, continues fingernails, the sci-fi love story from Apple Original Films that marks the English-language debut of Greek writer and director Christos Nikou. It grew out of the success of his debut picture Applesthe Greek contribution to last year’s Oscar race.
fingernails, starring Jessie Buckley, Riz Ahmed, Jeremy Allen White, Luke Wilson and Annie Murphy, premiered earlier this month at this year’s Telluride Film Festival and is showing in theaters and Apple TV+. It unites them Apples Executive produced by Nikou and Dirty Films and partners Cate Blanchett, Coco Francini and Andrew Upton.
The script was written by Nikou and him Apples Co-screenwriter and friend Stavros Raptis, accompanied by British writer Sam Steiner after reading Nikou Steiner’s script Morning (now in development with Justin Kurzel). The trio writes fingernails together in Greece, finally fixated on the idea of an ultimate love test, a test that provides scientific proof that love exists in couple relationships.
This led to the film’s plot taking place in a fictional near-future love facility, where couples undergo a procedure that goes far beyond dating apps: Both partners have their fingernails removed and put into a machine to fix or their There is a justified bond between each other. Real. Anna (Buckley) is skeptical about the positive results she has achieved with her long-term partner Ryan (White), so she works at a love institute as an assistant to Trevor (Ahmed), a mysterious and dedicated teacher, to find out more to learn
When you’re in love, “you have to feel a little pain,” Nikou recently said on Deadline’s “Contenders Film: London.” “So we try to equate the pain of love with physical pain.”
The result is a surreal film that’s part sci-fi, part love story, part violent body horror, but decidedly bittersweet comedic in tone, exploring the lengths modern couples go to to maintain their relationships.
Click below to read the script.
Source: Deadline
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