Rosamund Pike Is Trapped in 'Hallow Road's First Images
Rosamund Pike in 'Hallow Road's First Images
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Most British movies we cover here at Telly Visions tend to be the highfalutin kind that makes grand debuts at international film festivals, but that's because those are the sorts of films most classically trained British actors get cast in. However, one should never assume that the U.K.'s entire cinematic output is somehow nothing but Awardsbait; that's like thinking BBC One airs nothing by PBS Masterpiece shows 24-7. There are plenty of popcorn fluff films like Hallow Road, semi-gripping thrillers with middling scripts given extra oomph simply because the British actors involved are considered A-list.
Hallow Road was initially announced when it started production in late 2023, filmed partly in Ireland and partly in Prague. The first major feature film from London Film & TV, founded by Ian Henry in 2018, the company is well known for its successful series in the "unscripted" realm, with projects such as the Mick Flannery documentary How High and real-life dystopian Autonomous.
However, despite this being the production studio's first swing at scripted drama, the small cast (the movie only features four speaking roles) is pretty stacked, with Rosamund Pike (Saltburn) and Matthew Rhys (The Americans) as the couple at the center of the story. With the first images now out, however, the movie seems to focus on one half of that couple more than the other, with Pike featured solo in both pictures.
Rosamund Pike in 'Hallow Road's First Images
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Here's the movie's logline:
The film watches as two parents enter a race against time when they receive a distressing late-night phone call from their daughter after she caused a tragic car accident.
Megan McDonnell (Miss Scarlet) joins Pike and Rhys as part of the film's small cast; one assumes she plays their daughter. Paul Tylak (Harry Wild) rounds out the cast. Director Babak Anvari (Cloverfield Franchise) helmed the film from a script by William Gillies, his first to be produced. Ian Henry, Lucas Toh, and Richard Bolger executive produce.
Hallow Road does not yet have a release date, but it is expected to be out in the first half of 2025.
