It’s been a couple of years since we’ve had a concrete update about the Ethan Hawke-led (“The Weight,” “The Lowdown”) thriller “The Last of the Tribe,” as he’s getting some company on the call sheet with Orlando Bloom and the previously announced Brazilian model/actress/activist Zaya Guarani (“Postcards From Earth”), as the trio will lead the pic set in the Amazon rainforest from “Vultures” director Claudio Borrelli.
The big casting update for “The Last of the Tribe,” based on the true events and non-fiction novel by journalist Monte Reel (adapted for the screen by Mark Bailey), comes to us from Variety, as the project once had director Doug Liman attached before a creative shuffling and has landed Oscar-nominated cinematographer of “Train Dreams,” Adolpho Veloso (who previously captured the glorious beauty of the American outdoors should be able to do the same for the Amazon rainforest).
In the reporting, we got a brief synopsis for the gestating project:
The film is set in the Amazon rainforest and follows William Phelan (Hawke), a washed-out Chicago cop turned corporate gun-for-hire, who is sent to investigate a death. During his mission, he encounters the last surviving member of an Indigenous tribe.
Also, Borrelli said the following in an official statement, “I’m drawn to films that slam the raw, the rugged, and the cruel head-on into the beautiful and the divine. In this story, the rainforest is both the villain and the savior; that natural and forever conflict is the essence of what I want to capture in ‘The Last of the Tribe.'”
A producing team for “The Last of the Tribe” features Oscar-winner Edward Saxon (“Silence of the Lambs”), alongside Steve Schwartz and Paula Mae Schwartz for Chockstone Pictures (“All the Old Knives”), Mark Bailey, and Ethan and Ryan Hawke (“The Weight”). “City of God” and “Two Popes” filmmaker Fernando Meirelles is also a exec producer via his São Paulo-based O2 Filmes.
Protagonist Pictures is launching sales for “The Last of the Tribe” ahead of the European Film Market, which debuts this month alongside the Berlin International Film Festival.
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