EXCLUSIVE: Patrick Wachsberger’s new international sales outfit 193 has boarded buzzy Cannes Competition title Die, My Love, starring Jennifer Lawrence and Robert Pattinson.
Lynne Ramsay’s film (You Were Never Really Here), based on the 2017 novel by Ariana Harwicz, also stars LaKeith Stanfield, Sissy Spacek and Nick Nolte. LBI’s Rick Yorn is handling domestic sales.
Set in rural America, Die, My Love is described as the portrait of a woman engulfed by love and madness. Pattinson plays her husband, and Stanfield her lover.
Ramsay directed from her script written with Enda Walsh and Alice Burch. Producers include Justine Ciarrocchi and Lawrence on behalf of Excellent Cadaver, as well as Martin Scorsese, Andrea Calderwood, and Black Label Media’s Molly Smith, Trent Luckinbill and Thad Luckinbill. The latter served as financier.
Former Lionsgate and Summit exec Wachsberger launched production and sales banner 193 earlier this year as a JV with Legendary Entertainment. It now has one of the Cannes Film Festival’s most high-profile movies to tempt buyers. This is the company’s second film on its sales slate after we revealed Peter Dinklage’s The Toxic Avenger as its debut title.
Known for her Cannes-debuting drama Ratcatcher, as well as films like We Need to Talk About Kevin and Morvern Callar, Ramsay’s last movie You Were Never Really Here, the thriller starring Joaquin Phoenix, won her the Cannes Best Screenplay award in 2017.
The production’s stills photographer shared multiple images from the film on instagram last fall.
‘Die, My Love’ starring Jennifer Lawrence and Robert Pattinson
Kimberly French
‘Die, My Love’ starring Jennifer Lawrence and Robert Pattinson
Kimberly French
