BAFTA and Emmy award-nominee Tessa Thompson (“Thor: Ragnarok,” “Hedda”), Golden Globe and Emmy award-winner Owen Cooper (“Adolescence,” “Wuthering Heights”) and two-time Emmy award-winner Ebon Moss-Bachrach (“The Bear, The Fantastic Four: First Steps”) are attached to star in upcoming psychological thriller “Foxfinder.”
The film, from DGA and Emmy award-nominated director Aoife McArdle (“Severance,” “Kissing Candice”) and exploring the “absurdity of state control and societal conformity,” is launching in Cannes with Cornerstone and Logical Pictures Group co-repping international sales and distribution. WME Independent, Cornerstone and Logical Pictures Group are jointly representing the U.S. rights.
“Foxfinder” is based on the award-winning play by Dawn King, with a screenplay co-written by director McArdle and King. The play won the 2011 Papatango New Writing Prize. Production is set to begin in Germany, with filming taking place in Bavaria in summer 2026.
The film follows Jude and Sam, a grieving couple clinging to routine and survival, whose lives are upended when William, a coldly devout government “foxfinder,” arrives at their struggling farm with a mission to root out the designated enemy — the fox. As paranoia festers and absurd regulations tighten their grip, suspicion replaces love, and truth itself begins to warp.
The film is a Rabbit Track Pictures and Elation Pictures production developed with Film4 and the BFI (awarding National Lottery funding), co-produced by Komplizen Film and Trimafilm. In addition to support from Film4 and the BFI, financiers include Logical Pictures Group, German Federal Film Fund (DFFF), the Bavarian fund FFF Bayern and Medienboard Berlin-Brandenburg. It is produced by BAFTA award nominee Kamilla Hodøl and BAFTA award winner Emilie Jouffroy for Elation Pictures, and Rabbit Track Pictures’ Kitty Kaletsky, two-time Academy award winner Janine Jackowski and David Armati Lechner from Trimafilm. Executive producers are Farhana Bhula and Cate Kane for Film4 and Fred Fiore and Ryan Wickers for Logical.
Tessa Thompson is represented by CAA, Untitled Entertainment and JTWAMM. Ebon Moss-Bachrach is represented by WME, Sue Leibman at Barking Dog Entertainment, and Peikoff Mahan Law Offices. Owen Cooper is represented by Independent Talent Group; Sloane, Offer, Weber & Dern; Public Eye Communications. McArdle is represented by Josh Varney at 42 and WME and Dawn King by Berlin Associates.