Gillian Anderson, Kodi Smit-McPhee, and Tilda Cobham-Hervey have all been attached to star in Croak, directed by Academy Award Nominee Sam Fell (ParaNorman, Flushed Away).
Movie written by Lucy Moore, which centres on a world-weary 17-year-old
Jenny (Cobham-Hervey) and mysterious, geeky Marcus (Smit-McPhee) - a
young grim reaper living somewhere between the land of the living and
oblivion.
After several missteps in the human world, the grim “Mistress”
(Anderson) declares that one more mistake from Marcus will sentence him
to a lifetime of oblivion. When Marcus commits the ultimate reaper sin,
the determined young lovers give a whole new meaning to the phrase ‘Till
Death Do Us Part’!”
“Croak abandons the traditional constructs of a
romantic-comedy and brings a much edgier tone to the world of young
love,” said Cornerstone Films co-founders Thompson and Gooder.
“Death,
love and laughter are universal themes intertwined in this
unconventional love story and we’re excited to introduce this project in
Cannes.”