Paul Schrader’s Master Gardener has cast its leads with Joel Edgerton and Sigourney Weaver.
The crime thriller has Edgerton starring as the master gardener of an American estate who confronts his dark past. Weaver will play his employer, a wealthy dowager, who insists that Edgerton’s character takes on her troubled great-niece as a new apprentice. And thus, chaos occurs.
“When the idea first started it was one of my male protagonists but then these two women intervened and it became something more complex and unique,” Schrader said in a statement via Variety.
Edgerton was recently in The Green Knight and The Underground Railroad. He’s set to star in Bright and The Brutalist. Weaver’s credits include Alien, Ice Storm, and the Avatar franchise.
The film is based on the original screenplay by Schrader and he’s also set to direct. Amanda Crittenden, Scott LaStaiti, and David Gonzales will produce. Luisa Law, Linda Ujuk, and Dale Roberts will executive produce.
