Breathe (upcoming 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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| Language | English |
Breathe is an upcoming love story directed by Andy Serkis, written by William Nicholson, and starring Andrew Garfield, Claire Foy, and Hugh Bonneville. The film is produced by The Imaginarium Studios, which is run by director Serkis and Cavendish' real-life son, Jonathan Cavendish. The film is co-financed by BBC Films.Bleecker Street and Participant Media will distribute the film in North America.
The film is scheduled to open in select theaters on October 13, 2017.
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 Jonathan, 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.
During filming, Garfield had to remain immobile as Cavendish was depicted being tended to with everyday tasks such a bathing, adding, "But we also had to show that Robin and Diana remained romantically attractive to each other...The amazing thing was that everyone around Robin became his body. He became the mastermind behind all this invention." Garfield characterized Diana as more than just a soul mate, but "Robin's access to the world. He had tremendous dependence, physically and emotionally, on Diana." This influenced Garfield's own relationship with Claire Foy, who portrays Diana, saying, "I would treat her body as my body. There’s a beautiful symmetry and synchronicity there." Garfield explained that he spent time with the real-life Diana, Jonathan and their friends and family, which allowed him to absorb something of Robin's personality, and "glimpse the man inside the respirator".
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