Another hot project headed to the EFM film market in Berlin will be Andrea Arnold’s next film. It’s set to star Scarlett Johansson and is said to be about a real-life FBI informant who infiltrated neo-nazi gang The Aryan Brotherhood.
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In a role that has some buyers already speculating awards potential, Johansson will portray Carol Blevins, a heroin addict and “Aryan Princess featherwood” (property of a gang member) who became one of the FBI’s most important informants during an epic, six-year investigation into the murderous, neo-Nazi crime and drug syndicate known as the Aryan Brotherhood Of Texas. Blevins, who lived with the gang, memorized details, pre-empted murders and interrupted robberies, helped convict 13 members of the group. However, her harrowing journey left her with significant physical and mental scars and she lives under constant threat of reprisal by the ABT.
Arnold will most likely be premiere “Bird,” starring Barry Keoghan, at Cannes this coming May. She is the maverick filmmaker behind “Fish Tank” and hasn’t released a fiction film since 2016’s “American Honey.”