‘The Patron’ by Peter Webber is now being actively developed at Double Vision Productions in London. The protagonist of the movie is Jamie, whose encounter with aspiring artist Katherine Scarno alters his life “forever.” The official logline for the movie reads, “Falling madly in love, he secretly and compulsively acquires her paintings, until his relationship with them and with her merges into hallucination and murder. Hugh Cornwell wrote the script for the movie.
With the Colin Firth and Scarlett Johansson-starring movie “Girl with a Pearl Earring” from 2003, Webber made his directorial debut. The prequel to “Red Dragon,” “Hannibal,” and “The Silence of the Lambs,” “Hannibal Rising,” was the next film he directed. Hannibal Lecter’s transformation into a cannibalistic serial killer is depicted in the Gaspard Ulliel-starring movie. ‘Emperor,’ a historical drama starring Tommy Lee Jones, came after ‘Hannibal Rising. ‘Kingdoms of Fire,’ ‘Pickpockets,’ and ‘Inna de Yard: The Soul of Jamaica’ are a few of his other acting credits.
Webber is presently working on the pre-production of numerous movies in addition to the movie’s development, one of which is called “The Prominents,” which is about some of the most well-known prisoners of Nazi Germany. The movie stars Irène Jacob from “Three Colours: Red” and Thomas Kretschmann from “Indiana Jones and the Dial of Destiny.” In addition, the filmmaker is in charge of the film “Irena Sendler,” which is based on the biography of the social worker of the same name who was instrumental in smuggling 2,500 Jewish children out of the Warsaw Ghetto during the Holocaust. Another forthcoming Webber movie, “The Medusa,” is based on Théodore Géricault’s painting “The Raft of The Medusa.”
The Stranglers, a punk rock band, included Cornwell as their primary singer and guitarist before becoming a screenwriter. His music can be heard in a number of well-known works, including “Ghosted,” “The Umbrella Academy,” “A.P. Bio,” “Utopia,” “Gotham,” “Hardcore Henry,” etc. The Patron marks Cornwell’s screenwriting debut for a major motion picture.
The movie is produced by Iain Tait and Mark Thomas. Thomas is renowned for producing “The Runaways” and working on the crew of “The Bank Job,” which stars Jason Statham. The remaining members of the film’s cast and crew have not yet been revealed.
