Robin Wright has been directing episodes of House Of Cards for a while now, and has worked on a short called The Dark Of Night. But though she's been developing films as potential directorial debuts, she's now locked in her choice, signing on to also star in Land.
Jesse Chatham and The Post's Liz Hannah wrote the script, which will see Wright as Edee Mathis, a cosmopolitan lawyer who takes herself off the grid almost entirely. With advice from online survivalists, she moves to the most unpopulated area in the States, living in a cabin in the Shoshone National Forest in Wyoming. All alone, she must learn to hunt, fish and grow her food as she faces brutal winters, a challenging landscape and local wildlife that could kill her at any moment. In crossing paths with Joseph, a First Nations local, Edee begins to confront her demons and surprises herself with her own will to survive.
Wright's aiming to kick off directing this summer in Canada's British Columbia province, looking to shoot the territory across four seasons. "Robin proved herself a tour de force taking in hand House Of Cards as a director as well as its lead actor, says HanWay Films boss Gabrielle Stewart. "She speaks very eloquently and passionately about wanting to tell the story of a woman’s journey through loss and pain, where only by giving herself to nature can she find a path to inner peace and redemption. It is a unique cinematic experience of huge scale, yet speaks to our basic human need for more earthy simplicity in this busy noisy world."
Wright is listed as reprising her role as Antiope, the main character's aunt in Wonder Woman 1984, due on on 5 June next year.
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