Director Jennifer Kent will begin work on her next picture. Kent is best known for directing 2014’s The Babadook. Her new film, The Nightingale, will be a period thriller written by Kent and stars Aisling Franciosi, Sam Claflin, Damon Herriman, Ewen Leslie, Harry Greenwood, Baykali Ganambarr, and Magnolia Maymuru.
Filming will take place in Tasmania, Australia. The film is set in Tasmania in 1825, The Nightingale follows “a beautiful 21-year-old Irish female convict who witnesses the brutal murder of her husband and baby by her soldier master and his cronies. Unable to find justice, she takes an Aboriginal male tracker with her through the hellish wilderness to seek revenge on the men and gets much more than she bargained for,” according to an official statement.
