Festival Predictions

2022 Sundance Film Festival Predictions: Tom George’s See How They Run

Published on November 24, 2021

Depending how Searchlight plays its hand for the 2022 slate, we could easily see See How They Run set up for Sundance or play the wait game until TIFF. Tom George‘s directorial debut comes after working on different Brit television projects for the past decade include his most recent series: three seasons of rural Britain with “This Country.” Written by Mark Chappell, production took place earlier in the year with a heavyweight cast of Saoirse Ronan, Sam Rockwell, David Oyelowo, Adrien Brody, Ruth Wilson, and Harris Dickinson.

Gist: Set in the West End of 1950s London, where plans for a movie version of a smash-hit play come to an abrupt halt after a pivotal member of the crew is murdered. When world-weary Inspector Stoppard (Sam Rockwell) and eager rookie Constable Stalker (Saoirse Ronan) take on the case, the two find themselves thrown into a puzzling whodunit within the glamorously sordid theater underground, investigating the mysterious homicide at their own peril.

Production Co./Producers: Gina Carter, Damian Jones.

Prediction: PREMIERES.

U.S. Distributor: Searchlight Pictures.

Eric Lavallée

Eric Lavallée is the founder, CEO, editor-in-chief, film journalist and critic at IONCINEMA.com (founded in 2000). Eric is a regular at Sundance, Cannes and TIFF. He has a BFA in Film Studies at the Mel Hoppenheim School of Cinema. In 2013 he served as a Narrative Competition Jury Member at the SXSW Film Festival. He was an associate producer on Mark Jackson's This Teacher (2018 LA Film Festival, 2018 BFI London). In 2022 he served as a New Flesh Comp for Best First Feature at the 2022 Fantasia Intl. Film Festival. Current top films for 2022 include Tár (Todd Field), All That Breathes (Shaunak Sen), Aftersun (Charlotte Wells).