Letitia Wright Drama ‘Silent Twins’ Acquired by Focus

Focus Features has acquired the worldwide rights to “Silent Twins,” a movie starring “Black Panther” actress Letitia Wright.

“Silent Twins” is the English-language debut of “The Lure” director Agnieszka Smoczynska and stars Wright and Tamara Lawrance (“The Gurney,” “The Long Song”) as twin sisters in Wales who’re mute to everybody however themselves.

The movie just lately wrapped manufacturing in Poland. Focus plans to distribute the movie within the U.S., whereas Universal Pictures International will distribute internationally.

“Silent Twins” relies on the guide “The Silent Twins” by Marjorie Wallace. It tells the haunting story of June and Jennifer Gibbons, twins from the one Black household in a small city in Wales within the 1970s and ’80s.

Feeling remoted from that unwelcoming neighborhood, the pair flip inward and reject communication with everybody however one another, retreating into their very own fantasy world of creative inspiration and adolescent needs. After a spree of vandalism impressed by an American boy they each idolize, the ladies, now youngsters, are summarily sentenced to Broadmoor, an notorious psychiatric hospital, the place they face the selection to separate and survive or die collectively. Andrea Siegel wrote the screenplay.

“Silent Twins” is produced by Madant’s Klaudia Smieja-Rostworowska, Extreme Emotions’ Ewa Puszczyńska, 42’s Ben Pugh, Joshua Horsfield, Kindred Spirit’s Anita Gou, Alicia van Couvering and Letitia Wright.

The movie was financed by Kindred Spirit and co-financed by the Polish Film Institute, Moderator Inwestycje and Cofiloisir. 30WEST organized the financing and represented the U.S. rights. The govt producers embody Tamara Lawrance, 30WEST’s Katie Anderson, Jake Carter and Trevor Groth, Andrea Seigel, Charlie Morrison and Marjorie Wallace.

“Aga is a visually stunning and fantastically sensitive filmmaker who treats the twins, so harshly judged, as ordinary girls with extraordinary imaginations,” Focus Features president of manufacturing and acquisitions Kiska Higgs mentioned in a press release. “She’s created a luminous, magical world for her stars, in which they explore the themes of love, longing, identity and what it truly means to have an ‘other half.’”

Wright is thought for her work in “Black Panther” and “Black Mirror,” and he or she most just lately starred in Steve McQueen’s “Mangrove” as a part of his “Small Axe” anthology. She’ll subsequent be seen in “Death on the Nile.”

Simon Goldberg and Razwana Akram at SMB, Brian Kilb at Eisner and Tomasz Przybecki negotiated the cope with Focus Features.

For the report: A earlier model of this story referred to “Silent Twins” as a brief movie. It’s feature-length.