Spain’s Film Factory Entertainment has added to its burgeoning Berlin sales slate of star-laden upscale entertainment titles with market potential, acquiring international distribution rights to psychological mystery thriller “Reversion,” starring Jaime Lorente, who played the conflicted Denver in “Money Heist.”
Film Factory Entertainment will present a first promo of “Reversion”at this week’s European Film Market in Berlin.
As producers push casts as a manner to stand out in a far too crowded market, “Reversion” also stars Manu Vega (“With the Years I have Left”), Belen Rueda, lead in J.A. Bayona’s debut “The Orphanage,” and Fernando Cayo, Coronel Tamayo in “Money Heist.”
Co- written by Marco Legarde (“UFO Factory”) and Frank Ariza (“With the Years I have Left”), alongside first-time director Jacob Santana, “Reversion” turns on Mario (Lorente) who moves to a new house with his parents and older brother David (Vega).
One rainy afternoon, Mario witnesses his brother being violently kidnapped. After 19 days of agonizing wait, David returns with no memories of what’s happened to him. Small details make Mario suspicious that he’s not even David. As Mario searches for the truth behind the kidnapping, what he discovers will make him doubt his own sanity, morals and the world around him.
“The film takes us into an intricate labyrinth of secrets, revelations and moral dilemmas that will make you question everything you thought you knew,” the synopsis says.
Billed also as a powerful psychological mystery thriller with multiple dislocating twists, the film is being described as a haunting thriller in the vein of “Old Boy” – one suspects in part for its abrupt action scenes – and “The Invisible Guest,” for its multiple twists and turns and questions of identity.
“Reversion” is inspired by “Forgotten,” a 2017 Korean box office hit written and directed by and backed by B.A. Entertainment Production.
A Spain-Dominican Republic title, “Reversion” is produced by Frank Ariza, Carmen Aguado and Desiree Reyes. It is currently in post-production. “Reversion” is produced by Spain’s AF Films and the Dominican Republic’s Ebribari.
“We are delighted to be working, once again, on a hot project of this stature after the great reception of similar titles such as ‘The Invisible Guest.’ We are truly convinced that ‘Reversion’ will not leave audiences indifferent either,” said Film Factory Entertainment director Vicente Canales.
On Film Factory’s Berlin slate, “Reversion” joins “The Talent,” a glitzy party-set psychological thriller toplining Ester Expósito, one of the biggest breakouts of “Elite” stars, ad co-scripted by “The Good Boss’” writer-director Fernando León de Aranoa.
Manu Vega in ‘Reversion’
Courtesy of Film Factory
