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John Michael McDonagh empieza a rodar The Forgiven

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- El cuarto largometraje del director anglo-irlandés, protagonizado por Ralph Fiennes y Jessica Chastain, comenzó a filmarse el mes pasado en Marruecos

John Michael McDonagh empieza a rodar The Forgiven
El director John Michael McDonagh

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Ralph Fiennes, Jessica Chastain and Caleb Landry Jones are set to star in The Forgiven, the fourth feature by acclaimed writer-director John Michael McDonagh. Principal photography commenced in the middle of last month in Morocco, the location in which the eponymous source novel, written by Lawrence Osborne, takes place. Said Taghmaoui rounds off the supporting cast.

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Marking a more mature project from McDonagh than his last, the irreverent US cop satire War on Everyone [+lee también:
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, the film also reunites Chastain and Fiennes, who starred together as husband and wife in the latter’s adaptation of Coriolanus [+lee también:
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. The story follows the impact of a random accident on the lives of an English couple, who travel to the High Atlas mountains of Morocco for a party hosted by old friends in their lavish villa.

The Forgiven is a UK production being staged by McDonagh himself and Elizabeth Eves for their production company House of Un-American Activities, with Compton Ross, of Head Gear Films, taking an executive-producer credit. Osborne, whose novel Hunters in the Dark was also unveiled at last month’s EFM for a screen adaptation, is listed as an executive producer. Moroccan production support comes from Kasbah Films.

McDonagh is, of course, the brother of Oscar-winning filmmaker and playwright Martin McDonagh, with whom he shares a similar black-comic writing style. Prior to War on Everyone, he won acclaim for Calvary [+lee también:
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and The Guard [+lee también:
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, which both featured a soulful leading turn from Brendan Gleeson. Fiennes has been nominated for two Oscars (for The English Patient and Schindler’s List) and has recently branched out into directing, his latest film being The White Crow [+lee también:
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, a biopic of Russian ballet dancer Rudolf Nureyev.

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