Emilia Jones and Susanna Fogel Group Up for Actuality Winner Biopic

Emilia Jones and Susanna Fogel are reuniting. The pair simply teamed up for “Cat Individual,” a movie adaptation of Kristen Roupenian’s viral New Yorker story a few school sophomore’s relationship with an older man. That venture is at the moment in post-production, and now they’re lining up one other collaboration: Jones, who led this 12 months’s Finest Image winner, “CODA,” will topline “Winner,” Fogel’s “darkly comedic” biopic of whistleblower Actuality Winner. Deadline broke the information. 

Penned by Kerry Howley and primarily based on her New York Journal function story, the movie follows Winner (Jones), “a superb younger misfit from Texas who finds her morals challenged whereas serving within the U.S. Air Power and dealing as an NSA contractor. The movie will provide a contemporary tackle the normal whistleblower thriller; the coming-of-age story follows an idealistic younger lady persecuted for standing by her rules,” the supply particulars.

Connie Britton, whose current credit embrace “The White Lotus” and “Luckiest Woman Alive,” will play Winner’s mom.

Winner obtained a history-making sentence after leaking a doc exposing Russia’s interference within the 2016 U.S. presidential election.

“As a filmmaker, I attempt to inform tales that interrogate the world we stay in and the methods which can be damaged in it. However in a enjoyable manner. Actuality Winner is the proper heroine for a movie that meditates on concepts of non-public energy, morality, and discovering your voice,” Fogel mentioned. “She’s a real particular person: she speaks many languages, she loves her weapons, she may destroy you on Twitter, and her obsession with Pikachu is unmatched. Clearly, she’s the proper mouthpiece for a era of people who find themselves distinctive and fed up with feeling powerless. And there’s no yet one more good to play her than Emilia Jones, probably the most thrilling younger actresses working in the present day. I hope Actuality’s story will encourage others to talk up and defend their beliefs, no matter the price. I’m thrilled to companion with this workforce of artists and activists to carry this film to life.”

Fogel’s function credit embrace “The Spy Who Dumped Me” and “Life Companions.” “The Flight Attendant” and “The Wilds” are amongst her small display screen credit. She obtained an Emmy nod for the previous. Fogel directed a number of episodes of “A Small Gentle,” an upcoming Disney+ restricted collection that tells the story of a Dutch lady who risked her life to assist defend Anne Frank’s household. “The Morning Present’s” Bel Powley stars.

Jones performed an aspiring singer and the one listening to member in a Deaf household in “CODA,” Siân Heder’s Oscar-winning coming-of-age pic. Her different credit embrace “Locke & Key” and “Nuclear.”