EXCLUSIVE: Paul Wright’s latest feature Mission, starring George MacKay and Rosy McEwen, debuts in competition at this year’s Edinburgh Film Festival and Deadline can unveil a first look clip.
The film’s official synopsis reads: “Dylan (MacKay) has reached the end of his tether with his dead-end job and lonely, unfulfilling existence. Over the course of a week, he blows his life up, pushing boundaries and seeking meaning in the wake of extreme chaos as he wrestles with trying to feel alive and finding a reason to go on. Paul Wright’s immersive, expressionistic portrait of a young man’s existential angst and directionless fury is vividly composed, frenetically paced and fraught with tension.”
Blue Finch is handling sales on the film, which was produced by Linn Waite, Kate Byers, Alex Thiele, Marie-Elena Dych and Lowri Roberts.
Wright and MacKay previously worked together on For Those in Peril (2013), which screened as part of the Critics Week sidebar at Cannes and was later BAFTA nominated. That film followed Aaron, a young misfit living in a remote Scottish fishing community, who is the lone survivor of a strange fishing accident that claimed the lives of five men, including his older brother.
The exec producers on Mission are Kristin Irving, Kiah Simpson and Kieran Hannigan. The production companies are Early Day Films, 65 Wilding and Rapt. Wright directed the feature from a screenplay he wrote. The film will debut on August 15 at Edinburgh.
Check out the clip above.
