Paul Greengrass’ The Rage, starring Andrew Garfield and Thomasin McKenzie, will begin filming in Germany this autumn as a Germany-UK co-productio
Paul Greengrass’ The Rage, starring Andrew Garfield and Thomasin McKenzie, will begin filming in Germany this autumn as a Germany-UK co-production between Munich-based Supernix and London outfit Electric Shadow Company.
The US’ Blumhouse Productions is executive producing, Focus Features has North American rights, while Leonine Studios will release in Germany and Austria. FilmNation is handling international sales.
The film has received the maximum €2m in production support from Bavaria’s international co-production fund FFF Bayern and will shoot entirely at locations in Bavaria with interiors at Munich’s Penzing Studios.
Written by Greengrass, The Rage is set in plague-ravaged 14th century England and centres on a peasant who triggers a rebellion against King Richard III and unintentionally becomes a legend of resistance.
The film will move to the UK for postproduction.
’She Gets it From Me’
German director Julia von Heinz’s English-language She Gets It From Me, starring Marisa Tomei and Rachel Zegler, will also shoot in Germany this year after receiving €1.2m from FFF Bayern. It is a co-production between von Heinz’s Seven Elephants and the US’ 3311 Productions, with Embankment Films handling world sales.
It will shoot at various Bavaria locations.
The screenplay by Jay Reiss sees Zegler playing a teacher in New York with a habit for lightweight shoplifting, whose engagement celebration triggers tracking down her birth mother, portrayed by Tomei, a pill popping manic ex-punk rocker with boundary issues and a gift for imaginative fiction.
Von Heinz’s most recent credits include Treasure, starring Lena Dunham and Stephen Fry, which premiered at the 2024 Berlinale.
Meanwhile, FFF Bayern has invested €500,000 production funding in the six-part TV series Brothers which is being produced by Munich-based Hager Moss Film with Luxembourg’s DEAL Productions and Greece’s Blonde Audiovisual Productions and will partly shoot in Munich.
The Cypriot-UK writer-director Simon Farmakas, who has been living in Luxembourg since 2014, will direct the series for which Germany’s ARD Degeto, RTL Luxembourg and Greece’s Cosmote are attached as broadcast partners.
Farmakas will be showrunner and co-wrote the scripts with Nicki Bloom and Marco Wiersch. Brothers follow sa Greek-Cypriot and Turkish-Cypriot detective who are forced to collaborate to solve the mystery of a German politician’s son being found dead in the no man’s land that divides Cyprus.
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