EXCLUSIVE: The English-language adaptation of Momo, one of many best-loved fantasy books by The Neverending Story author Michael Ende, has set a buzzy forged, with Alexa Goodall (A Gentleman In Moscow) taking the lead function of the younger orphan woman Momo.
The principal forged is accomplished by Araloyin Oshunremi (Top Boy, Heartstopper), Kim Bodnia (Killing Eve, The Witcher), Claes Bang (The Square), Laura Haddock (The Recruit, Transformers: The Last Knight), Jennifer Amaka Peterson (The Sandhamn Murders), David Shütter (Charlie’s Angels) and Martin Freeman (The Hobbit, Sherlock).
Deadline also can reveal an unique first look of Goodall in Momo, which is presently filming in Croatia and Slovenia.
The movie is produced by prolific German producer Christian Becker (The Wave, Fuck You, Goethe) and written and directed by bilingual writer-director Christian Ditter (How To Be Single), who each snagged rights to the favored novel a couple of years in the past and an under-the-radar deal. The worldwide bestseller has been translated into greater than 50 languages and has bought greater than 13 million copies worldwide.
The story focuses on Momo, a younger orphan woman who lives within the ruins of an previous Roman amphitheater and turns into associates with all people within the neighborhood. But, when a robust worldwide company begins stealing all people’s time, no person has any time left for her, not to mention their associates or households. Momo, along with Master Hora, the custodian of time, are the one ones who can go up towards the time thieves earlier than all is misplaced endlessly.
Momo is from Rat Pack Filmproduktion in co-production with Constantin Film Production and Westside Filmproduction in affiliation with Michael Ende Productions and Pakt Media.
Constantin will distribute Momo in German-speaking territories. Rocket Science is dealing with worldwide gross sales rights for the remainder of the world and is launching the movie to consumers forward of the Cannes Film Festival subsequent week.
Becker produces the title whereas Amara Palacios is inventive producer. Martin Moszkowicz and Oliver Berben are exec producers whereas Roman Hock and Wolf-Dieter von Gronau are co-executive producers. Ditter writes and directs the venture, based mostly on the novel. Momo was funded by FFF Bavarian Filmfund, MBB Medienboard Berlin-Brandenburg, FFA Federal Film Funding, DFFF German Film Funding, HAVC (Croatian Audiovisual Centre).
Ditter and Becker beforehand collaborated on widespread German movie franchises resembling Crocodiles and Vicky The Viking (Vicky And The Treasure of the Gods). Becker is certainly one of Germany’s most profitable producers with credit together with Dennis Gansel’s 2008 thriller The Wave, the Jim Button franchise, Vicky the Viking and Suck Me Shakespeare (aka Fuck You, Goethe) in addition to Netflix thriller Blood Red Sky. His firm Rat Pack, is a subsidiary of German big Constantin.
Ditter is thought for German and English-language movies and sequence together with Netflix’s Biohackers, Lily Collins starrer Love, Rosie, New Line’s romcom How to Be Single with Dakota Johnson, Rebel Wilson, Leslie Mann and Alison Brie, and Isla Fischer and Greg Kinnear comedy The Present.