Nikolaj Coster-Waldau, recently seen with Lena Headey in Game of Thrones‘ penultimate episode, seems troubled in this first image from Robin Pront’s thriller The Silencing.
Also starring Annabelle Wallis and Hero Fiennes-Tiffin, the film comes from the Nicholl Fellowship-winning script by Micah Ranum and is produced by Cybill Lui of Anova Pictures and executive produced by XYZ Films.
XYZ is handling global sales and representing the U.S. with Endeavor Content in Cannes.
The film is currently in production in Canada with Matt Code of Wildling Pictures co-producing.
The Silencing depicts a reformed hunter (Coster-Waldau), who becomes involved in a life-risking game when he and the local sheriff set out to track a vicious killer who may have kidnapped his daughter years ago.
XYZ’s Cannes slate that includes Lorcan Finnegan’s Vivarium, premiering at the festival, Joe Penna’s Stowaway, starring Anna Kendrick and Toni Collette, Benson and Moorhead’s Synchronic starring Anthony Mackie and Jamie Dornan, Richard Stanley’s Color Out of Space starring Nicolas Cage, and Jim Taihuttu’s The East starring Marwan Kenzari and Martijn Lakemeier.