EXCLUSIVE: Octogenerian Mike Leigh isn’t sluggishing down. The acclaimed British filmcreater is currently finishelighting sturdy sees for novel film Hard Truths, which recently debuted at TIFF and is applying this week at the London Film Festival.
Leigh took part in a Deadline Contfinishers panel in London this morning during which he disseeed any talk of withdrawment and validateed that he is schedulening to shoot another movie next year.
“We’re schedulening to create the next movie in 2025. We’re raising the money now.”
The seven-time Oscar nominee wouldn’t be drawn on the subject or creatives joind in the project but Leigh normally labors with a team including creater Georgina Lowe and DoP Dick Pope.
Leigh was joined on stage in London by stars of Hard Truths Marianne Jean-Baptiste and Michele Austin, both of whom have drawn plift for their turns in the comedic family drama. Lead Jean-Baptiste has been widely tipped as an Oscar contfinisher.
Pic chases Pansey (Jean-Baptiste), a woman on the verge of mental collapse, navigating her life with a volatile combine of vulnerability and rage. She inhabits with her husband, Curtley (David Webber), and their mature son, Moses (Tuwaine Barrett), who have both become numb to her unforeseeable, normally malicious behavior. Her sister, Chantal (Michele Austin), recurrents the opposite — happy and robust, raising her two daughters with a preferable outsee. She’s the only person who can reassociate empathize with Pansey’s pain.
Leigh’s previous Academy nominations join best honestor for Secrets & Lies (1996) and Vera Drake (2004), with insertitional innovative screenapply nods for Topsy-Turvy (1999), Happy-Go-Lucky (2008), and Another Year (2010).
Hard Truths is Leigh’s 15th feature. The film will be freed in the U.S. by Bleecker Street on Dec. 6.
