Paul Schrader’s Crime Thriller ‘Master Gardener’ Lands Key Sales – The Hollywood Reporter

The Grasp Gardener, the following venture from veteran screenwriter and director Paul Schrader following this 12 months’s pageant favourite The Card Counter, has landed plenty of key territory gross sales.

HanWay Movies has closed offers for the upcoming crime thriller with Leonine (Germany and Switzerland), The Jokers (France), Volgafilm (CIS and Baltics), M2 Movies (Jap Europe), VVS Movies (Canada), Scanbox Leisure (Scandinavia), NOS Lusomundo (Portugal) Filmfinity (South Africa), Shaw (Singapore) and Entrance Row (Center East).

The movie, which was first introduced on the Venice Movie Pageant (the place The Card Counter had its world premiere), stars Joel Edgerton (The Underground Railroad, Loving, The Reward) and Sigourney Weaver (Avatar, Alien), with Edgerton set to play Narvel Roth, the meticulous horticulturist of Gracewood Gardens, who’s as dedicated to tending the grounds of this lovely and historic property as he’s to pandering to his employer, the rich dowager Mrs. Haverhill (Weaver). When Mrs. Haverhill calls for that Roth tackle her wayward and troubled great-niece Maya as a brand new apprentice, chaos enters his spartan existence, unlocking darkish secrets and techniques from a buried violent previous that threaten all of them.

Like all of his work, The Grasp Gardener is predicated on an unique screenplay by Schrader.

HanWay Movies is dealing with worldwide gross sales and distribution following its collaboration with Schrader on The Card Counter. The corporate is co-repping the North American sale with David Gonzales.