Production is underway on “The Wolf Will Tear Your Immaculate Hands” in Belfast, Northern Ireland, which sees “Clara Sola” director Nathalie Álvarez Mesén teaming up with Icelandic novelist/poet/screenwriter Sjón to pen the script, the latter being the co-writer of Robert Eggers‘ Viking revenge thriller “The Northman,” for their Gothic horror tale that has added in-demand Swedish actor Alexander Skarsgård (“Pillion”) to the mix.
The casting and production update hails from Variety, who add the rest of the cast features Darla Contois (“Little Bird”), Bronte Carmichael (“Star Wars: Andor,” “Christopher Robin”), and Lily La Torre (“Run Rabbit Run”). Others on the call-shell include Forrest Goodluck (“The Revenant,” “How to Blow Up a Pipeline”) and Swedish actress Pernilla August (“The Best Intentions”), who famously once played Anakin’s mother Shmi Skywalker in the first “Star Wars” prequel film “The Phantom Menace.”
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Further details mentioned by the outlet: Skarsgård is set to play a “British widower in the 1880s Pacific Northwest, who hires a Native American governess (Contois), educated in a Christian mission school, to teach his two daughters (Carmichael and Torre). While preparing the eldest for an arranged marriage, a force within her begins to awaken, threatening everything she has been taught.”
“The Wolf Will Tear Your Immaculate Hands” is said to be ready for May 2026, with a collaboration between Resolve Media in the U.S., co-producers Quiddity Films in the U.K., Need Productions in Belgium, and Still Vivid in Iceland.
Financing for the Gothic hroror feature wwas also raised through a large group such as the Film i Väst, SVT, VOO, OBE & Be tv, Proximus, Shelter Prod, Tint, Finite Films, Northern Ireland Screen, the British Film Institute’s UK Global Screen Fund, Eurimages, Creative Europe, the Swedish Film Institute, the Film and Audiovisual Center of the Wallonia-Brussels Federation, Screen Brussels, Taxshelter.be & ING, the Tax Shelter of the Belgian Federal government, the Icelandic Film Centre, the Icelandic Tax Credit, and Nordisk Film & TV Fond.
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