Production has begun on The Island Between Tides in Prince Rupert, BC. The supernatural thriller is written and directed by Andrew Holmes (Dolph) and Emmy Award-winning filmmaker Austin Andrews (Julie and the Phantoms).
The feature film, based on Peter Pan author J.M. Barrie’s gothic bedtime story Mary Rose, stars Paloma Kwiatkowski (pictured) of Riot Girls, Donal Logue ( pictured) of Sons of Anarchy, David Mazouz (Gotham), Camille Sullivan (Hunter Hunter), and Golden Globe nominee Adam Beach (The Power of the Dog). XYZ Films is handling North American sales.
The Island Between Tides takes place in the coastal wilds on the Alaskan border and centers on Lily (Kwiatkowski), a young woman who follows a mysterious melody onto a remote tidal island. When she crosses back over at the next low tide, she emerges into a world where decades have passed. She is unharmed but not unaltered.
The Island Between Tides is the first feature adaptation of the forgotten ghost story Mary Rose, which The New York Times likened to a “more mature” reworking of Barrie’s more famous Peter Pan.
Mary Rose has a rich Hollywood backstory: Alfred Hitchcock saw the play during its original run in the 1920s and became obsessed with the property. He acquired the rights from Paramount in the early 1960s and attached Tippi Hedren to play Mary Rose, only to have Universal kibosh the production out of fears that a ghost story would be a box office failure. In his last years, Hitchcock told his biographer that his life’s greatest regret was not bringing Mary Rose to the big screen. In a final twist, the rights to Mary Rose were acquired in 2000 by Tippi Hedren’s daughter, Melanie Griffith, and her husband Antonio Banderas. Ultimately, that project was also shelved.
The film is produced by Flicker Theory, Famous Red Car, and Mad Samurai Productions, written, directed, and produced by Andrew Holmes and Austin Andrews, produced by Matthew Cervi and Josh Huculiak, co-produced by Morgana Wyllie and Amber Ripley, and executive produced by Darren Benning, James Tocher, Michael Shepard, and Adam Scorgie.
The Island Between Tides is the very first film to shoot in the northern Canadian port city of Prince Rupert and was made possible through the support of Telefilm Canada.
Paloma Kwiatkowski is represented by Carrie Wheeler Entertainment Group and Industry Entertainment. Donal Logue is repped by United Talent Agency, Kipperman Management, and RLG, LLP. David Mazouz is repped by Paradigm Talent Agency, Untitled Entertainment, and Jackoway, Austen, Tyerman. Adam Beach is repped by Red Management.
Photo Credits via Nicola Pender: Austin Andrews, Kyrani Kanavaros, and Christopher Polk_FOX
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