What we know about Rosamund Pike in Emerald Fennell’s new film ‘Saltburn’

Rosamund Pike is to star in Emerald Fennell’s new film.

The 43-year-old actress has been tapped to lead the cast of the Oscar winner’s second feature film following the success of her debut effort ‘Promising Young Woman’.

Few details are known about the new project, but insiders tell us that it will be titled ‘Saltburn’ and is about an aristocratic English family.

Fennell is familiar with the world after portraying Camilla Parker Bowles in the Netflix series ‘The Crown’.

Filming on the project is due to start later this year.

Fennell knows this world very well: the director and screenwriter studied at the prestigious Marlborough College and Greyfriars in Oxford. Her family members also frequented this environment: her father Theo is a famous jewelry designer, her mother Louise MacGregor is an esteemed writer and her sister Coco a stylist. Additionally, Fennell confronted the Royal Family story when she played Camilla Parker-Bowles in The Crown’s third and fourth seasons.

Emerald Fennell, new film after Barbie’s takes Filming of Saltburn will begin later this year and another irreverent and unconventional film is expected, full of saturated colors and indie-pop music such as A Promising Woman, hailed in her homeland. like the new Gone Girl. The takes will begin as soon as Fennell has concluded the production (as an actress) of Barbie, the live action of the famous Mattel doll directed by Greta Gerwig in which Margot Robbie stars. As for Pike, the actress is busy with the second season of the fantasy series The Wheel of Time and has been announced in the cast of the thriller Rich Flu, the highly anticipated second film by Spanish Galder Gaztelu-Urrutia, the Basque director of the cult movie Il hole.

The filmmaker won an Academy Award for Best Original Screenplay for ‘Promising Young Woman’ and was also nominated for Best Director and Best Picture.

Meanwhile, Rosamund Pike has also landed the lead role in ‘Rich Flu’.

The upcoming movie is being directed by the Spanish filmmaker Galder Gaztelu-Urrutia and tells the story of how a deadly disease begins killing off wealthy people.

The flick sees a mysterious disease killing off some of the richest and most influential people on the planet starting with the billionaires, then the multi-millionaires and so on.

As it threatens to strike anyone with any sort of fortune, the world descends into panic as the human race attempts to flood the market with assets that are no longer wanted.

Gaztelu-Urrutia said: “‘Rich Flu’ is an immense physical saga, full of twists, obstacles and surprises. But, above all, it is a complex and provocative emotional journey to the depths of the human soul and the pinnacles of glorious self-indulgence.

“Only an artist with the bravery and intelligence of Rosamund Pike could bring this film to life.”

Rosamund Pike movie ‘Saltburn’ is in pre-production.

Audible is set to launch a new narrative documentary podcast exploring the true story behind a Russian spy’s life undercover inside the U.S., narrated by Oscar nominee Rosamund Pike (Gone Girl).

Mother, Neighbor, Russian Spy, produced by BBC Studios, will investigate the case of Cindy Murphy – a wife, mother, and finance professional who appeared to be living the early 2000s dream of ‘having it all’ in New York City. But everything was not as it seemed.

With access to those who knew her personally, the Audible Original series will retrace the steps that led to Murphy’s unmasking as a Russian sleeper agent by the FBI.

Pike, who recently won the Audie Award for Best Female Narrator for her work on The Eye of the World,  will chart Murphy’s complicated double life of juggling motherhood and suburban life with espionage, shining a light on the lengths someone will take to hide their identity all for the Mother Country.

According to producers, Pike used her personal connections made with the FBI from previous acting roles to help the production team get inside access to former FBI agents.

The nine-part series was commissioned by Audible and produced by BBC Studios’ Factual Podcast Unit. It is the second podcast published under a multi-project deal between BBC Studios’ Factual Podcast Unit and Audible, following the launch of I Am Not Nicholas earlier this year. It launches April 20th.

Pike said: “This story is truly remarkable and has been a real passion project of mine this past year. I’ve always been fascinated with espionage and have been lucky to explore that world through my acting work, but Mother, Neighbor, Russian Spy made me even more curious as to how someone can take on an acting role for a lifetime, pretending to be someone you’re not, even to your own children.”