(UTV | COLOMBO) – Cate Blanchett will both star in and produce writer-director Warwick Thornton’s new drama feature “The New Boy”.
Set in 1940s Australia, this depicts the mesmeric story of a nine-year-old aboriginal orphan boy who arrives in the dead of night at a remote monastery run by a renegade nun (Blanchett).
The new boy’s presence disturbs the delicately balanced world in this story of spiritual struggle and the cost of survival.
Deborah Mailman and Wayne Blair will also star in the film which is set to begin filming in October in Australia. Blanchett, Andrew Upton and Georgie Pym will produce.