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Ben Mendelsohn is to star with Daisy Ridley in The Marsh King s Daughter .
The 52-year-old actor has been tapped to appear in the thriller based on Karen Dionne s book of the same name, which is being directed by Neil Burger.
Ben will portray Jacob Holbrook, the infamous Marsh King , who kept his young daughter Helena and her mother captive in the wilderness for years.
After spending a lifetime trying to escape her past, the grown up Helena (Ridley) is forced to face her demons when her father makes an unexpected return.
Elle Smith and Mark L. Smith have adapted the screenplay with the latter also producing with Black Bear Pictures Teddy Schwarzman and Keith Redmon for Anonymous Content. Michael Heimler, Cliff Roberts and Charles Miller are executive producing the project.
Adapted from Karen Dionne s book of the same name by Elle Smith and
The Revenant writer Mark L Smith, the film follows Helena (Ridley), a young woman who is forced to confront past traumas when her father Jacob Holbrook (Mendelsohn) re-enters her life.
The pair s relationship is fraught to say the least, as Helena was born during a time when Jacob was holding her mother captive in a remote cabin out in the wilderness, having kidnapped her as a teenager.
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