Matt Smith, Morfydd Clark to star in supernatural horror movie ‘Starve Acre’

By PTI

LOS ANGELES: British star Matt Smith and Welsh actor Morfydd Clark are set to play lead roles within the upcoming supernatural horror film “Starve Acre”.

The characteristic movie comes from author and director Daniel Kokotajlo, finest recognized for his 2017 BAFTA-nominated film “Apostasy”, as per The Hollywood Reporter.

Based on the novel by Andrew Michael Hurley, “Starve Acre” is described as a story in regards to the “inherited trauma and loss inside a world dominated by supernatural folklore”.

It follows a pair, Richard (Smith) and Juliette (Clark), in Seventies England whose seemingly excellent life is interrupted when their son out of the blue and unexpectedly dies, inflicting the as soon as pleased and idyllic couple to develop distant from one another.

“They both cope with the tragedy in different ways — Richard buries himself in exploring a local folkloric myth about a powerful and supernatural tree on their estate to distract himself, and Juliette turning to the local community, who are hiding an occult secret, for support,” the official logline learn.

Tessa Ross and Juliette Howell’s prolific House Productions is producing the movie, which is being developed with BBC Film and funded by BBC Film, Access Entertainment and the BFI.

Smith is probably going finest recognized for his fan-favourite flip as the enduring title character in “Doctor Who” in addition to taking part in Prince Philip within the first two seasons of Netflix royal drama “The Crown”.

He most just lately starred in Edgar Wright’s “Last Night in Soho” and can subsequent be seen within the upcoming “Game of Thrones” prequel, “House of the Dragon”.

Clark broke out because the lead of A24’s critically acclaimed psychological horror “Saint Maud”.

She is at present awaiting the discharge of the Amazon sequence “The Lord of the Rings: The Rings of Power”.