EXCLUSIVE: Christopher Abbott is put be a a part of the ensemble solid of Searchlight and Film4’s Depressed Issues, Yorgos Lanthimos adaptation of the Alasdair Grey contemporary. Emma Stone is on board to megastar along with Willem Dafoe, Impress Ruffalo and Ramy Youssef also on board. Lanthimos is put to boom. Tony McNamara will adapt the script. Factor Photos will manufacture along with Stone, who will manufacture below her Fruit Tree banner, and Lanthimos.
The movie shall be a Victorian tale of delight in, discovery and scientific mettlesome. Depressed Issues tells the unimaginable story of Belle Baxter, a younger woman brought encourage to lifestyles by an eccentric nonetheless just correct scientist. It’s miles unknown who Abbott shall be taking part in. Searchlight had no commentary.
Handiest known for his breakout feature in George Clooney’s adaptation of Elevate-22 which earned him a Golden Globe nomination for handiest actor in tiny series, Abbott used to be most just right this moment considered opposite Aubrey Plaza in Gloomy Undergo as nicely Possessor. He’ll be considered subsequent opposite Jerrod Carmichael in Carmichael’s directorial debut On the Count Of Three, which premiered at Sundance earlier this year and used to be obtained by Annapurna for unencumber thru MGM’s Orion Photos.
He is repped by CAA and Administration 360.
