Ian McKellen, Gemma Arterton, Mark Strong, Lesley Manville, Ben Barnes & More Star in Period Thriller ‘The Critic’

Special: Ian McKellena good liar), Jemma Arterton (cottage land) and strong brand (1917) will guide the players criticalA period thriller based on Anthony Quinn’s classic novel drapery. Oscar nominee Leslie Manville (ghost yarn), BAFTA nominee Romola Garay (suffragist), Ben Barnes (western worldand Alfred Enoch (Basis) will also be a star.

In a movie shot in London in 1934, McKellen plays alongside Arterton as Jimmy Erskine, the city’s most dangerous theater critic, and Nina Land, an actress who has decided to win him over. When Jimmy finds himself in danger because of his newspaper’s new owner, David Brooke (the powerful), Nina finds herself in a dangerous web of blackmail, deception and murder.

Anand Tucker (Hillary and JackieScreenplay by Oscar nominee Patrick Marber (Notes on the scandal), production continues in and around London. The entire film is financed and produced by London-based BKStudios, with owner Bill Kenwright serving as producer and CEO David Gilber serving as executive producer for the company. Jolyon Symonds created and developed the project and co-produced with Kenwright. His company, Fearless Minds, is a co-producer of Tucker’s Seven Stories.

Additional executive producers include Culinary Productions’ Mark Gordon, Tom Butterfield and Harry White; Naomi George for BKStudios; მარბერი; and Tucker. BKStudios holds worldwide distribution rights, international sales are represented by Culmination. CAA Media Finance and UTA Independent Film Group jointly reaffirmed the film’s local rights.

McClellan is a two-time Oscar nominee and most recently starred opposite Helen Mirren in a Bill Condon drama. a good liar The next Ken McMullen drama will be. Farmhouse inside.

Arterton is a recent BAFTA award nominee. king’s man Y cottage landwith similar series black daffodil. He will soon be seen in the thriller as well. rotten Sarah Goldberg with the series funny woman Based on the novel by Nick Hornsby and the Disney+ show. guilty Among other projects.

Strong is a BAFTA Award nominee known for being involved in a variety of projects. 1917 He Shaza!, king movies and blood clots in the back Who heads the Sky One series? TempleI. Other movies he will star in include Todd Field. TAR With Cate Blanchett, a Lorcan Finnegan thriller note with Eva Green on Netflix Assassination Ground2action voltage border country With Aml Ameen and the drama Felicity Jones and Doug Lyman Everest.

Made movies like Tucker leap year, When was the last time you saw your father?, shop girl, Hillary and Jackie Y Saint OldWith episodes like cheat Y indian font.

In addition to the Oscar nomination Notes on the scandalHe has written films, including Marber. Shelter Y Close. Additional titles include the Knowing Me series, Meet You with Alan Partridge, cougar race Y day by day.

Other upcoming projects at BKStudios include the newly packaged thriller. murder room Starring Samuel L. Jackson and Uma Thurman, Shepherd Starring John Travolta and filming the hit West End musical live heather Adapted from the 1989 cult film.

McKellen and Arterton represent CAA and Independent Talent Group in the UK; Strong UK Markham, Froggatt and Irwin and WME; Manville and Garay on behalf of the UK Artist Rights Group; Barnes, Luber Roklin Entertainment and Creative Arts Management from WME, UK; Enoch of ICM Partners, Independent Talent Group and Lasher Group; Tucker of UTA; and Marber of Dalzell and Beresford and Judy Daish Associates, WME and LBI Entertainment in the UK.