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FilmNation Boards Tomas Alfredson’s Psychodrama ‘Séance on a Wet Afternoon’ Starring Rachel Weisz, Penned by ‘Adolescence’ Writer Jack Thorne (EXCLUSIVE)

Tomas Alfredson's 'Séance on a Wet Afternoon,' starring Rachel Weisz and penned by Jack Thorne, has been boarded by FilmNation ahead of Cannes market.

Tomas Alfredson’s anticipated psychodrama “Séance on a Wet Afternoon,” starring Oscar winner Rachel Weisz (“The Favourite”), has been boarded by FilmNation ahead of the Cannes Film Market. Weisz will star as Myra, a self-proclaimed medium who convinces her husband Billy to kidnap the son of a wealthy family so she can lead the police to the “missing” child and legitimize her psychic abilities. “Séance on a Wet Afternoon” will be produced by Robyn Slovo; Astral Projection’s Polly Stokes and Rachel Weisz; and Ed Guiney and Andrew Lowe for Element Pictures (a Fremantle company), whose credits include Yorgos Lanthimos’ “Poor Things.”

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