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So fear not, dear readers. The Very Good TV Podcast has got your back. On this week’s episode, IndieWire TV Editor Lisa Shannon Miller and TV Critic Ben Travers have collected the 10 most important, exciting, or intriguing returning series to make sure your favorites don’t go overlooked. Or, if you missed some of these the first time through, maybe there’s a new favorite to be had.
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- 9/18/2017
- by Ben Travers
- Indiewire
Variety is reporting that Ellen Page and Morgan star Kate Mara have closed deals to headline Mercy, a new romantic drama from Israeli filmmaker Tali Shalom Ezer.
In what will be their first on-screen collaboration – Page and Mara have worked together on comedy sketches including Funny or Die’s hilarious Tiny Detectives – we understand the pair will find themselves butting heads in Ezer’s feature, with Page attached to the role of Lucy, the daughter of a shunned man on death row. Mara, meanwhile, will portray the title character who hails from the opposite end of the political cause. Sparks inevitably fly as Lucy begins to call her troubled father-daughter relationship into question.
Also starring Amy Seimetz, Pablo Schreiber and Elias Koteas, production on Mercy is expected to get underway in Cincinnati next month, lending Tali Shalom Ezer and Co. ample time to align the romantic picture for next year’s festival circuit.
In what will be their first on-screen collaboration – Page and Mara have worked together on comedy sketches including Funny or Die’s hilarious Tiny Detectives – we understand the pair will find themselves butting heads in Ezer’s feature, with Page attached to the role of Lucy, the daughter of a shunned man on death row. Mara, meanwhile, will portray the title character who hails from the opposite end of the political cause. Sparks inevitably fly as Lucy begins to call her troubled father-daughter relationship into question.
Also starring Amy Seimetz, Pablo Schreiber and Elias Koteas, production on Mercy is expected to get underway in Cincinnati next month, lending Tali Shalom Ezer and Co. ample time to align the romantic picture for next year’s festival circuit.
- 8/22/2016
- by Michael Briers
- We Got This Covered
Ellen Page and Kate Mara are set to star alongside each other in Tali Shalom Ezer’s romantic drama “Mercy,” Variety reports. The film will also feature turns from Amy Seimetz, Pablo Schreiber and Elias Koteas.
Per Variety, “Page is portraying Lucy, the daughter of a man on death row falling in love with Mara’s Mercy character, a woman on the opposing side of her family’s political cause. As a result, Lucy’s value for truth is tested as her world begins to unravel.”
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Ezer, who previously directed the Sundance drama “Princess,” will direct the film from a script by Joe Barton. The film will be produced by Christine Vachon and David Hinojosa for Killer Films, along with Page and Mara. And it sounds like “Mercy” is a passion project for everyone involved,...
Per Variety, “Page is portraying Lucy, the daughter of a man on death row falling in love with Mara’s Mercy character, a woman on the opposing side of her family’s political cause. As a result, Lucy’s value for truth is tested as her world begins to unravel.”
Read More: Channeling David Fincher: How ‘House of Cards’ Created a ‘Hyper’ Look For Its Most Ambitious Episode
Ezer, who previously directed the Sundance drama “Princess,” will direct the film from a script by Joe Barton. The film will be produced by Christine Vachon and David Hinojosa for Killer Films, along with Page and Mara. And it sounds like “Mercy” is a passion project for everyone involved,...
- 8/19/2016
- by Kate Erbland
- Indiewire
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