Past Life, the new film from Grimmfest festival director Simeon Halligan has been given an official go-ahead with production set to kick off in 2023.
Known for his performances in Sean Penn’s Into The Wild and The Wachowski’s Speed Racer, Hirsch stars as an investigative reporter Jason Fret who reluctantly agrees to attend a hypnotism event with his pregnant wife Claira. Under hypnosis, Jason witnesses a murder through the eyes of a killer. Haunted by what he has seen, Jason uses past live regression techniques to investigate a series of unsolved murders from the eighties, while unwittingly reawakening a psychopath’s killer tendencies.
Royal College of Art graduate, and director of Grimmfest, Manchester’s International Festival of Fantastic Film, Halligan brings his design credentials and his deep knowledge of genre cinema to bear on the project. Dean Lines and Ray Bogdanovitch (Hounded, The Banishing) wrote the screenplay with additional material from Halligan.
Halligan’s previous feature directing credits include White Settlers (The Bloodlands in the US) and Habit.
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