John Crowley, whose romantic drama We Live in Time is currently breaking hearts on the fall film festival circuit, has signed on to direct Five, a psychological thriller currently in development at TriStar Pictures.
Adam McKay, Kevin Messick and Betsy Koch are producing the feature via their Hyperobject Industries. The project reunites the producers with Seth Reiss, the co-writer of the production banner’s 2022 dark thriller The Menu, which starred Ralph Fiennes and Anya Taylor-Joy.
While plot details are being kept behind the curtain, the project is described as a two-hander and is said to center on a recent widow who becomes obsessed with the actress of a one-woman show.
Reiss will exec produce. TriStar president Nicole Brown and Shary Shirazi are shepherding for the studio.
Crowley is the BAFTA-winning Irish film and theater director who made his feature debut with the 2003 crime anthology Intermission. He won a BAFTA for best director for his 2007 drama Boy A, which starred Andrew Garfield, and caught Hollywood’s attention with Brooklyn, the 2015 immigrant drama that starred Saoirse Ronan and won a BAFTA for best British film while also scoring three Oscar nominations. Other credits include The Goldfinch, the 2019 adaptation of the Donna Tartt novel starring Ansel Elgort and Nicole Kidman and.
We Live in Time stars Andrew Garfield and Florence Pugh as a couple whose love story is told over a span of decades. The movie premiered at the Toronto International Film Festival and will be released theatrically by A24.
Crowley is repped by WME, Casarotto Ramsay and Goodman Genow.
