Seven years after announcing he was quitting acting, multiple Oscar winner Daniel Day-Lewis is starring in his son Ronan Day-Lewis’s feature directorial debut Anemone for Focus Features and Plan B.
Production is underway in Manchester, England. Day-Lewis Sr., Sean Bean, Samantha Morton and Samuel Bottomley star in the project. The screenplay was co-written by father and son. Ben Fordesman (
LoveLies Bleeding ) is the director of photography, Jane Petrie (TheCrown ) is the costume designer, and Chris Oddy (TheZone Of Interest ) is the production designer.Anemone
marks Day-Lewis’s first acting role since Focus Features’ PhantomThread . Universal Pictures International will distribute the film internationally.Focus chairman Peter Kujawski said: “We could not be more excited to partner with a brilliant visual artist in Ronan Day-Lewis on his first feature film alongside Daniel Day-Lewis as his creative collaborator. They have written a truly exceptional script, and we look forward to bringing their shared vision to audiences alongside the team at Plan B.”
Day-Lewis, frequently regarded as the greatest actor of the modern era, has won lead actor Oscars for
Lincoln in 2013, There Will Be Blood in 2008, and My Left Foot in 1990. He earned three other nominations, including for Phantom Thread.Ronan Day-Lewis is a painter and filmmaker whose work has shown widely in the United States. His first international solo exhibition opens in Hong Kong this week.
