Sergio G. Sánchez makes his feature directorial debut with 'Marrowbone', whose filming now begins in Asturias

The screenwriter of 'The Orphanage' and 'The Impossible' directs this psychological thriller produced by Belén Atienza, Álvaro Augustín and Ghislain Barrois, which also has director J.A. Bayona as executive producer.

This week the filming of Marrowbone, a psychological thriller produced by Belén Atienza, Álvaro Augustín and Ghislain Barrois that also has director J.A. Bayona as executive producer.

The film marks the debut as a feature film director of screenwriter Sergio G. Sánchez, awarded for The Orphanage and nominated for Impossible y Fin the Goya for Best Screenplay, and the CEC for the adaptation of the blockbuster Palm trees in the snow.

The cast is made up of a group of young British and American actors led by Anya Taylor-joy (The Witch), George Mackay (Captain Fantastic, For Those in Peril), Mia Goth (A Cure for Wellness, Nymphomaniac. Volumen 2), Charlie Heaton (Shut In), Matthew Stagg (Macbeth), and Kylie Soller (The Keeping Room, Anna Karenina).

In the technical section, Marrowbone It has big names in Spanish cinema such as the director of photography Xavi Giménez (winner of a Goya Award for Now and nominated multiple times for different awards for Fragile Palm Trees in the Snow o The Machinist); Sonia Grande in costume design (winner of a Goya Award for The apple of your eye and nominated for various awards for her work in Midnight in Paris by Woody Allen, with whom he has participated in several films, The broken hugs by Pedro Almodóvar The others by Alejandro Amenábar); Patrick Salvador in art direction (nominated for the Goya Award for Automaton and responsible in its category for films such as They are all dead, I want you o Three meters above the sky); Sandra Hermida in production direction (winner of two Goya Awards for “Lo Imposible” and “El Orfanato”); Elena Ruiz, in Editing (winner of a Goya Award for Impossible and nominated by The Orphanage y Eva), or Sergio Burman in sound (winner of the Goya Award for The boy y Cell 211).

Marrowbone, cuyo rodaje tendrá lugar a lo largo de 10 semanas en distintas localizaciones de Asturias y en los platós de Terrassa (Barcelona), se centra en la historia de cuatro hermanos, que temiendo que les separen tras la muerte de su madre, se esconden del mundo en su abandonada granja… una granja cuyas viejas paredes esconden un terrible secreto.

La película está producida por Telecinco Cinema, Marrowbone y Ruidos en el Ático con la participación de Mediaset España y Movistar+, distribuida en España por Universal Pictures International Spain.

Internacionalmente, Lionsgate ha logrado hasta el momento acuerdos de ventas internacionales de la nueva películas en más de 30 territorios, incluyendo Francia, Reino Unido, América Latina, Australia e Italia, tras su paso por la última edición del mercado de Cannes.