Breathe (2017 film)
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| Directed by | Andy Serkis |
| Produced by | Jonathan Cavendish |
| Written by | William Nicholson |
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| Music by | Nitin Sawhney |
| Cinematography | Robert Richardson |
| Edited by | Masahiro Hirakubo |
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| Distributed by | Bleecker Street |
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117 minutes |
| Country | United States |
| Language | English |
Breathe is an upcoming American biographical drama film directed by Andy Serkis, produced by Jonathan Cavendish and written by William Nicholson, and starring Andrew Garfield as Robin Cavendish, a handsome brilliant man who becomes paralysed following the polio illness. The film is produced by The Imaginarium Studios, which is run by Cavendish's son Jonathan and Serkis, and co-stars Claire Foy, Hugh Bonneville, Tom Hollander and Dean-Charles Chapman. It marks Serkis' directorial debut, although his next film, Jungle Book, was filmed prior but delayed due to its lengthy work on visual effects.
The film is co-financed by BBC Films.Bleecker Street and Participant Media will distribute the film in the United States. The film will have its world premiere at the Toronto International Film Festival in September 2017. It is scheduled to open in select theaters on October 13, 2017.
On 29 June, the BFI announced that Breathe would be the Opening Night Gala at the 2017 London Film Festival. The festival director Clare Stewart described it as a beacon for remarkable British talent.
Robin Cavendish, who after being given only three months to live after being paralysed from the neck down by polio at age 28, becomes a pioneering advocate for the disabled. He and his devoted wife, Diana, travel the world with the hopes of transforming the lives of others like him.
Cavendish's son John, who runs The Imaginarium Studios production company with director Andy Serkis, commissioned writer William Nicholson to write the film's screenplay, and is one of the producers of the film. He stated in an interview with The London Evening Standard that in producing the film, he wanted to capture "swashbuckling band of eccentrics" he knew in his childhood.
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