Irish actors Paul Mescal and Jessie Buckley are to star in a new project, Beasts of the Southern Wild.
The pair, who starred in the Oscar nominated, Hamnet, will now star in this latest movie from Oscar nominated writer-directed, Benh Zeitlin.
The film, which is to go into production next February, is also set to be shown to the buyers of the Marché du Film at the Cannes Film Festival, which runs between May 12-20. It is to be set in Louisiana and "follows a hell-bound outlaw (Mescal) and a ferocious shepherd of lost souls (Buckley) who fall in catastrophic love as their crumbling bayou paradise drags them under".
According to US entertainment publication, Deadline, Brad Pitt's company, Plan B, is to be one of its producers.
"Benh Zeitlin absolutely stunned us and the world at large with the cosmic sorcery of Beasts of the Southern Wild", Plan B said. "With Hold on to Your Angels, Benh has set his powerful mix of intense realism, myth, and magic against the large scale of an epic love story".
"This is a writer-director with a vision for the ages and we could not be more proud to be by his side to make this film with Jessie and Paul".
Speaking about the movie, Benh Zeitlin said: "Hold on to Your Angels is the most impossible love story I've ever witnessed - an outlaw romance for the end of America, set on the crumbling edge of South Louisiana".
"I've been dreaming of telling it since its hero, Pam Harper, walked into an audition for Beasts of the Southern Wild 17 years ago", he added. "It's a love letter to an endangered way of life - and a rallying cry for empathy across a fractured planet".
News of this comes as Jessie Buckley was also confirmed to star opposite fellow Irish actress, Saoirse Ronan in a new movie, an adaption of Audrey Niffenegger's bestseller, Three Incestuous Sisters. Find out more on this story here.
