Ivan Lendly Never Learnt to Volley
Director: Jed Kurzel
Writer: Jed Kurzel
Composer Jed Kurzel, and brother to filmmaker Justin Kurzel (Snowtown; Macbeth) makes his directorial debut with Ivan Lendl Never Learnt to Volley, a project the brothers devised together. A black comedy based on their own experience as tennis prodigies as teenagers, French actor Denis Menochet will star as a fanatical father obsessed with seeing his son become a professional tennis champion, no matter the cost. Jed Kurzel has collaborated on his brother’s features, as well as composing scores for a variety of successful Austrialian director’s films, such as Jennifer Kent’s The Babadook (2014) and John Maclean’s Slow West (2015).
Cast: Denis Menochet
Production Co./Producer(s): Warp Films’Anna McLeish and Sarah Shaw, Justin Kurzel
U.S. Distributor: Rights Available. TBD (domestic) Madman Entertainment (Austrialia/New Zealand).
Release Date: Justin Kurzel’s 2011 debut The Snowtown Murders premiered at Cannes in Critics’ Week. Filming was supposed to have taken place in the latter half of 2015 in Europe and Australia, so we may see Jed Kurzel follow in his brother’s footsteps in 2016.
