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André Holland, Bill Camp and Alexander Skarsgard also star in the directorial debut for Rebecca Hall.
Netflix acquired worldwide rights to the splashy Sundance title Passage, the debut in the direction of Rebecca Hall, starring Tessa Thompson and Ruth Negga. Sources estimate the deal to be $ 15 million.
Based on the novel by Nella Larsen, the film follows two African American women who can pretend to be white and choose to live on opposite sides of the color line in 1929 in New York.
“Exquisite performances by Tessa Thompson and Ruth Negga provide the pulsating and emotionally elevated center for Passage, Rebecca Hall’s guaranteed movement behind the camera, adapted with great sensitivity from the 1929 novel by Harlem Renaissance author Nella Larsen, “says The Hollywood Reporter Sundance review.
André Holland, Bill Camp and Alexander Skarsgard also star. Production by Nina Yang Bongiovi, Forest Whitaker, Margot Hand and Hall.
The US dramatic competition title sales were managed by Endeavor Content.