Overview
- The casting, which was announced Friday, teams Buckley and Mescal in Zeitlin’s dark love story set in southern Louisiana.
- The film is described in trade notices as an outlaw romance about two marginalized people in a decaying bayou community.
- Plan B Entertainment, Brad Pitt’s company, is producing the project, with producer Alex Coco also attached.
- Principal photography is planned to begin in February 2027, with the project now in early pre-production.
- Buckley recently won the best actress Oscar for Hamnet after co-starring with Mescal, and Zeitlin broke out with the 2012 drama Beasts of the Southern Wild.