French filmmaker Julia Ducournau should be a name well-known to any self-respecting horror fan, the mind behind the cannibal film Raw and the wild, genre-defying Titane. And in some good news today, we’ve learned her third movie has been confirmed, titled Alpha. Though it carries on the director’s tendency towards snappy, mysterious, one-word movie names, that’s about all we know about the flick.
Golshifteh Farahani (The Patience Stone) and Tahar Rahim (The Mauritanian, and… *cough* Madame Web. Don’t hold it against him, though).
Variety reports that FilmNation Entertainment and Charades are presenting the project at Cannes Film Festival. “Alpha is Julia’s most personal, profound work yet, and we are looking forward to a global audience discovering the story with as much excitement as we did,” the two entertainment companies said in a statement. “We can’t wait to bring the film to market in Cannes and to launch sales together for the first time and collaborate in this way.”
“Alpha is a new page in Julia Ducournau’s corpus that is both very consistent with the previous ones and entirely new in its tone,” the producers said. “To match an exceptional project, it was necessary to transcend conventions, as evidenced by the exceptional combination of producers on one hand and international sales companies on the other.”






