A new movie is filming in Alberta next month, and the details surrounding the project are somewhat mysterious, with just weeks until it begins shooting.
According to the Director’s Guild of Canada Alberta production list, a film titled A Long Winter is currently in pre-production and is set to start production on Oct. 22, lasting until Dec. 12.
The director attached to the film is Andrew Haigh, best known for directing 2023’s All of Us Strangers, 2017’s Lean on Pete, and 2011’s Weekend.
Very little is known about the cast apart from Deadline recently reporting that The White Lotus season one cast member Fred Hechinger, pictured below, is set to star.
The folks at Deadline say the synopsis of the film is one that “sees Louise, the alcoholic mother of Mike (Hechinger) and Tommy, take off after a quarrel with her husband Lester — walking with her dog to the home of her brother Frank, quite a few miles away. When a snowstorm blows up suddenly and socks in the entire area, Lester and Mike begin a search, which is soon expanded with the aid of local neighbours and local law enforcement.”
It’s a different plot coming from World of Reel, which states that the film will be set in 1950 and will feature “Katherine Proctor, who leaves Ireland for Barcelona, hoping to escape her family and pursue life as a painter. There she falls in love with Miguel, an anarchist and veteran of the Spanish Civil War. However, her attempt at reinvention falters when Michael Graves, another Irish exile, reawakens questions about her past, her art, her homeland, and even her devotion to Miguel.”
Other big projects currently in production in our province include a series based on the best-selling book series Anna Pigeon, and a fresh season of Netflix’s hit show My Life With The Walter Boys.
While we await more information on this project, check out the latest trailer for the Alberta-shot film Die, My Love, featuring Jennifer Lawrence and Robert Pattinson.
