Christal Films Productions have announced that French actor Romain Duris, John Malkovich and television’s Lost Evangeline Lilly (in her first feature film role) have signed onto star in Gilles Bourdos’ Afterwards.
Based on Guillaume Musso’s novel “Et après…” and written by Bourdos and Michel Spinosa, Duris (who replaces and looks nothing like the once in negotiations Forest Whitaker) will play Nathan Del Amico, a brilliant New York lawyer, who leads a life of professional success, but his private life is pretty dismal since he divorced Mallory, his only love. Until he meets Garrett Goodrich, a mysterious doctor who introduces himself as a “messenger'. He claims that he can sense when certain people are about to die, and that he is sent to help them put their life in order before it’s too late. Nathan doesn't believe a word of this, but soon afterwards he witnesses some disconcerting scenes which seem to confirm the doctor’s claims. And that is when Nathan understands that he is soon going to die.
Co-produced by Fidélité Films and Christal Films Productions, the 45-day shoot will commence June 4th in New York and then will come to Montreal on the 7th of July for 25 days of shooting. Mark Lee Ping-bin is the DOP of the project with Marc Missonnier and Olivier Delbosc of Fidélité Films to produce alongside Christian Larouche and Christian Gagné of Christal Films.