Another SXSW film is off the market. Saban Films has acquired U.S. rights to Robin Pront’s The Silencing, starring Nikolaj Coster-Waldau (Game of Thrones), Annabelle Wallis (The Mummy) and Hero Fiennes Tiffin (After).
The crime thriller was an official selection of the SXSW Film Festival and slated for the Midnighters program. It is unclear whether the film will screen on Amazon later this month as part of the recently announced SXSW virtual fest.
Written by Micah Ranum, The Silencing follows a reformed hunter (Coster-Waldau) living in isolation on a wildlife sanctuary who becomes involved in a deadly game of cat and mouse when he and the local sheriff set out to track a vicious killer who may have kidnapped his daughter years ago.