Number 9’s Elizabeth Karlsen and Stephen Woolley on ‘The Salt Path’, ‘The Assessment’ and future projects

UK producer pair Elizabeth Karlsen and Stephen Woolley of Number 9 Films have launched two features – The Salt Path and The Assessment – at Toronto International Film Festival (TIFF) this year as special presentations.

Marianne Elliott’s The Salt Path stars Gillian Anderson and Jason Isaacs as a real-life couple who trekked the UK’s 630-mile, shoreline-hugging South West Coast Path from Dorset to Somerset after losing their house and receiving life-threatening medical news.

In Fleur Fortuné’s UK-US-Germany co-production The Assessment, Alicia Vikander and Elizabeth Olsen go head-to-head as the former assesses the latter’s eligibility to bear a child in a world ravaged by climate change and low on resources.

Prime Video lands international rights to TIFF sci-fi ‘The Assessment’

Prime Video has acquired international rights excluding Germany to TIFF sci-fi drama The Assessment starring Alicia Vikander and Elizabeth Olsen.

The film marks the feature directorial debut of Paris-based commercials, shorts and music video director Fleur Fortuné and will receive its world premiere in Special Presentations on Sunday.

‘A Pale View of Hills,’ Debut Novel by Kazuo Ishiguro, Now Filming for Japan’s Bunbuku and U.K.’s Number 9

“A Pale View of Hills,” the debut novel of Nobel Prize-winning author Kazuo Ishiguro, is being adapted as a feature film. The picture is now in production and being directed by Japan’s Ishikawa Kei.

The film is presented by U-Next, Japan’s leading local streaming company. Production is by Bunbuku in association with Number 9 Films, the U.K. company headed by Stephen Woolley (“The Crying Game”) and Elizabeth Karlsen.

Alicia Vikander, Elizabeth Olsen to star in ‘The Assessment’ for Number 9 Films, Augenschein

Alicia VIkander and Elizabeth Olsen have signed to star in The Assessment, the debut feature from French filmmaker Fleur Fortuné, which is gearing up for a shoot in Cologne this summer at MMC Studios.

The futuristic drama is a co-production between Stephen Woolley and Elizabeth Karlsen’s UK-based Number 9 Films and Germany’s augenschein Filmproduktion, and has received €1m from Cologne regional film fund Filmstiftung NRW. German distributor Capleight is already in place to release the film.