‘Lonely Planet’ Film Declares Streaming Premiere Date At Netflix

Netflix introduced on Tuesday morning that Lonely Planet, its new romance from writer-director Susannah Grant (Unbelievable), is slated to premiere on the streamer on October 11, additionally unveiling a number of first-look stills, which you’ll be able to view above and under.

The movie watches as a reclusive novelist arrives at a prestigious author’s retreat in Morocco, hoping the distant setting will unlock her author’s block. Whereas there, she meets a younger man — and what begins as an acquaintanceship evolves into an intoxicating, life-altering love affair.

Actually, the Might-December romance is on pattern in the mean time amongst storytellers. Filmmaker Todd Haynes took to Netflix final 12 months together with his darkish comedy Might December, which nabbed a lot of Oscar and Golden Globe nominations after premiering on the Cannes Movie Competition. In the meantime, Nicole Kidman and Harris Dickinson chart the torrid affair between a high-powered CEO and her a lot youthful intern in A24’s forthcoming Babygirl from Our bodies Our bodies Our bodies helmer Halina Reijn, which bows out of Venice and is slated for launch in theaters on Christmas Day.

Lonely Planet additionally stars Diana Silvers, Younès Boucif, Adriano Giannini and Rachida Brakni. Grant produced alongside Sarah Timberman and Liza Chasin for 3dot Productions, with Brendan Ferguson, Corinne Weber, and Margaret Chernin serving as government producers. The movie continues the inventive partnership between Netflix and 3dot, which has to this point produced the streamer’s Anatomy of a Scandal, primarily based on the guide by Sarah Vaughan. It additionally reunites the corporate with Grant, who co-created Netflix’s Peabody Award-winning true crime miniseries Unbelievable, starring Toni Collette, Merritt Wever, and Kaitlyn Dever.