Overview
- MK2 Films is financing the feature, handling international sales, and co-repping domestic rights with Cinetic Media, with Killer Films’ Christine Vachon and Pamela Koffler producing.
- Principal photography is scheduled to begin next month in Guadalajara, Mexico, restoring momentum after the project’s earlier shutdown.
- Pedro Pascal will star opposite Danny Ramirez, with Pascal publicly confirming his casting on Instagram.
- Todd Haynes co-wrote the screenplay with longtime collaborator Jon Raymond, crafting a 1930s Los Angeles noir about a cop and a boarding-school teacher who flee to Mexico.
- The revival follows Joaquin Phoenix’s August 2024 exit five days before the planned shoot, a departure reported at the time as due to “cold feet.”