Jessie Buckley

Academy Award winner Jessie Buckley and nominee Paul Mescal , who starred last year in director Chloé Zhao ’s Hamnet , are reuniting in the upcoming feature Hold on to Your Angels , written and to be directed by Oscar-nominated filmmaker Benh Zeitlin ( Beasts of The Southern Wild ). Plan B ( Moonlight ) will produce with Alex Coco ( Anora ) under his Rapt Film banner. The hot project will be introduced to buyers at this month’s Cannes market where it’s expected a studio will snatch it up after a bid. Set on the edge of South Louisiana, Hold on to Your Angels “follows a hell-bound outlaw (Mescal) and a ferocious shepherd of lost souls (Buckley) who fall in catastrophic love as their crumbling bayou paradise drags them under.” Director Zeitlin said of the project, “ Hold on to Your Angels is the most impossible love story I’ve ever witnessed — an outlaw romance for the end of America, set on the crumbling edge of South Louisiana. I’ve been dreaming of telling it since its hero, Pam Harper, walked into an audition for Beasts of the Southern Wild 17 years ago. It’s a love letter to an endangered way of life — and a rallying cry for empathy across a fractured planet.” Production is due to begin in February 2027. via: Deadline