Alicia Vikander and Riley Keough Will Begin Shooting Netflix’s The Earthquake Bird This May
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Netflix is teaming up with Ridley Scott’s Scott Free Productions for The Earthquake Bird, based on Susanna Jones’ novel of the same name. Academy Award winner Alicia Vikander and Golden Globe nominee Riley Keough are just finishing up negotiations to star in Wash Westermoreland’s adaptation of the novel.
The story takes place in Tokyo, Japan in the early 2000s. It begins with a young woman named Lucy being questioned by the police about the disappearance of her friend Lily. The neo-noir thriller recounts Lucy’s time in Japan as an English translator and navigates around the premise of a love triangle that may have formed with a handsome local photographer when Lily arrives to visit Lucy. Throughout the novel, the readers are told how Lucy arrived to her current predicament with the police at the beginning leading up to the tumultuous trip to Sado Island where the trio begins to fall apart.
Amazon originally had plans to initiate the project according to Deadline, however Netflix has taken over and plans to start production this May in Tokyo and Sado Island. Ridley Scott will executive produce with Scott Free’s Kevin Walsh and Michael Pruss producing alongside Ann Ruark (Mr. Holmes, forthcoming Boy Erased) and Twenty First City’s Georgina Pope.