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The Match Factory Boards Serial Cannes Winner Oliver Laxe’s Next, Starring Sergi López (EXCLUSIVE)
In production, shooting in Spain and Morocco, the Movistar Plus+ original could mark another step by Laxe towards major auteur status.
The Match Factory is set to handle international sales on a new film by “Fire Will Come” director Oliver Laxe, headlined by Sergi López, star of Guillermo del Toro’s “Pan’s Labyrinth.” Co-written with “Matadero” director Santiago Fillol, also a co-scribe on “Fire Will Come,” Laxe’s next turns on a man and his son who arrive at a rave lost in the middle of what are described as the arid and ghostly mountains of southern Morocco. With the expertise acquired over time, we also like to back directors which have their own world, which are beyond fashion and different,” Agustín Almodóvar told Variety.” “Oliver is one of these rare cases, as was Lucrecia Martel and Alex de la Iglesia at their beginnings.”
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