Janina Vilsmaier, Protagonist Pictures’ head of sales, added: “Nora, with her mesmerizing filmmaking style, and Saoirse, with her endless skill and bravery are the perfect team to bring Amy’s award-winning memoir to screen. There are wonderful gifts already in place to make this a powerful and immersive film. One is the setting, the vast and cinematic landscapes of the Orkney islands the other is our main actress, Saoirse Ronan, who brings magic to the screen with her unique mix of charisma and emotional depth!” I have been waiting to play a part like this – the messiness, hopefulness, dreaminess, authenticity and humor we want to achieve – I’ve been scared of it, but with Nora I feel ready.”įingscheidt said: “Amy´s intriguing and poetic story shows how one can find their lives broken into pieces, and that recovery can happen in the most unexpected of ways and places. “Her unusual way of seeing things in a way that perhaps you only can when you’ve been to the darkest place you can go within yourself. “It was Amy’s voice that first drew me to ‘The Outrun,’” Ronan said in a statement. Protagonist will co-rep North American sales with CAA Media Finance. Protagonist Pictures are representing worldwide sales on “The Outrun,” with buyers getting an opportunity to be introduced to the project at European Film Market. Ronan, who has appeared in “Little Women” and “The French Dispatch,” among other fare, will next be seen in murder mystery “See How They Run” from Searchlight Pictures, which she stars in alongside Sam Rockwell.Īs well as recently directing Sandra Bullock in Netflix hit “The Unforgivable,” Fingscheidt is known for her debut feature “System Crasher,” which won the Silver Bear Alfred Bauer Prize at 2019’s Berlinale as well as eight German Film Awards.

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