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Claire Foy & Brendan Gleeson To Star In ‘H Is For Hawk’ For Plan B & ‘Poor Things’ Backer Film4; Protagonist Launches EFM Buzz Pic


The Crown and All of Us Strangers star Foy will play a woman who forms a friendship with a hawk while grieving the loss of her father.

EXCLUSIVE: Two-time Emmy and Golden Globe winner Claire Foy( The Crown, All of Us Strangers) and Oscar nominee Brendan Gleeson( The Banshees of Inisherin, In Bruges) are set to star in H Is For Hawk for Plan B ( 12 Years a Slave, Moonlight) and Film4 ( Poor Things, The Zone Of Interest). Based on author Helen MacDonald’s well-received New York Times memoir of the same name, the film is to be directed by BAFTA winner Philippa Lowthorpe ( The Crown), and written by Emma Donoghue ( Room). Foy, best known for her portrayal of young Queen Elizabeth in Netflix’s The Crown, for which she won two Emmys, as well as movies including First Man and Women Talking, was most recently BAFTA-nominated for Searchlight’s All of Us Strangers.

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