James McAvoy joins Chastain in 'Rigby Actor to star in Myriad's double feature project By DAVE MCNARY Chastain in Myriad Pictures' double feature film project "The Disappearance of Eleanor Rigby: Him and "The Disappearance of Eleanor Rigby: Her." Ned Benson wrote the two scripts and will direct both films.
Shooting is set to start in July Myriad had announced the two-film project in February, prior to the Berlin market, with Chastain and Joe Edgerton signed on to star in a love story that explores a New York City couple's relationship during a difficult time in their marriage from the perspectives of the restaurant-owner husband and of the wife, who goes back to college Each film will be a stand-alone movie Cassandra Kulukundis is producing.
McAvoy will next be seen starring in Danny Boyle's "Trance," Eran Creevy's"Welcome to the Punch" and Jon S Baird's "Filth." Thesp is represented by UTA and United Agents Chastain stars with Shia LaBeouf and Guy Pearce in the Weinstein Co.'s"Lawless," which screened Saturday at Cannes Myriad Pictures is pre-selling "Eleanor Rigby" in Cannes this week" 'The Disappearance of Eleanor Rigby represents an alternate approach to content," said Myriad.
. "New distribution models make it creatively possible for feature films to break out of the format of one 90-minute experience. We have to make both films work on their own both for the buyers but also for the audiences. Together these films wil describe a fully, more complete look at these characters and their lives." Benson wrote two Black List scripts -"In Defiance of Gravity" and "Too" - along with "Real Life With Carter Canby,"