EXCLUSIVE: English actress Sadie Soverall (Every Year After) is being eyed for a lead role in Brady Corbet‘s next film, multiple sources tell Deadline.
Reps for Corbet and Soverall declined comment. We’re told that Soverall has not yet inked her deal but is the choice for her part, which is under wraps.
Cate Blanchett, Michael Fassbender and Selena Gomez have previously been tipped as part of the cast, with Blanchett discussing her participation during a masterclass at Cannes.
Rumored to be titled The Origin of the World, the film is “about American mysticism and the history of the occult in America,” Corbet revealed during an appearance at Dublin’s Storyhouse screenwriting festival.
Much about the project still remains a mystery, but Corbet has confirmed that he’s working from an “X-rated” 200-page script.
“The film spans from the 19th century into the present day — it’s just predominantly focused on the ’70s. The film is really, really genre-defying,” the director told THR.
Corbet comes to this project on the heels of The Brutalist, an epic postwar drama that finds a visionary Hungarian architect (Adrien Brody) rebuilding his life and aiming to cement his legacy after immigrating to America. The film earned three Oscars from 10 nominations, with Brody wining Best Actor and additional statuettes for its cinematography and original score. That film came on the heels of Corbet’s Natalie Portman-led pop star drama Vox Lux, as well as The Childhood of a Leader, which won multiple awards at the Venice Film Festival.
Andrew Morrison and Brian Young will produce Corbet’s latest. Production is expected to kick off in late summer or early fall.
A sought after young talent, Soverall is the female lead of Every Year After, Prime Video’s new romantic drama series based on the BookTok phenomenon Every Summer After by Carly Fortune, which is set to world premiere at Tribeca before launching on the streamer June 10. Also upcoming for the actress is Finding Emily, a Focus/Working Title rom-com from director Alicia MacDonald that releases in the U.S. on August 28.
Previously seen in Emerald Fennell’s Saltburn and Netflix’s Fate: The Winx Saga, Soverall is repped by Anonymous Content, Brillstein Entertainment Partners and Independent Talent Group.