PRODUCTION NOTES

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Rating: Rated R for some disturbing images and brief strong language.Run time: 108 minutesU.S. Release Date: September 2, 2016

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SYNOPSIS

After surviving eight near-death accidents throughout his unlucky life, Louis Drax [Aiden Longworth] plunges off a steep cliff on his ninth birthday. While police investigate the cause of Louis’ near-fatal fall and the whereabouts of his violent father Peter [Aaron Paul], acclaimed neurologist Dr. Allan Pascal [Jamie Dornan] uses unorthodox techniques to try to tap into the boy’s unconscious mind and reveal the truth about the events that led to his condition. But as he’s drawn deeper and deeper into the mystery of Louis’ seeming ability to cheat death, the doctor finds himself falling for Louis’ mother, Natalie [Sarah Gadon]. As new clues emerge in the case, a shocking revelation changes the fates of Louis Drax and everyone around him.

PRODUCTION INFORMATION

The 9th Life of Louis Drax, based on the best-selling novel of the same title, stars Jamie Dornan (Fifty Shades of Grey franchise, The Fall) as Dr. Allan Pascal, Sarah Gadon (Dracula Untold, The Amazing Spiderman 2) as Natalie Drax, Aiden Longworth (Hector and the Search for Happiness, Cut Bank) as Louis Drax, and Aaron Paul (“Breaking Bad,” Triple 9) as Peter Drax. The film also stars Oliver Platt (X-Men: First Class, Frost/Nixon), Molly Parker (“House of Cards,” The Road), Julian Wadham (The Iron Lady), Jane McGregor (TV’s “Robson Arms”) and Barbara Hershey (Black Swan, Falling Down).

The film is directed by Alexandre Aja (Horns, The Hills Have Eyes) from a script by Max Minghella, adapted from the best-selling novel by Liz Jensen. Shawn Williamson (The Interview, 50/50), Alexandre Aja, Timothy Bricknell (The Two Faces of January, Breaking and Entering), and Max Minghella (The Two Faces of January) are the producers. Zanne Devine (Easy A, Mr. Holmes) and Rosanne Korenberg (Outlaws and Angels, Half Nelson) are the executive producers. Justine Raczkiewicz (The Pyramid, Horns) is the associate producer.

The director of photography is Maxime Alexandre (The Crazies, The Hills Have Eyes); production designer is Rachel O’Toole (The Possession, Sweet Destiny). The

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editor is Baxter (Shut In, The Other Side of the Door). The costume designer is Carla Hetland (The Interview, 50/50). The music is composed by Patrick Watson (The Flood).

Summit Premiere and Miramax present a Blank Tape / Brightlight Pictures production, in association with Fire Axe Pictures.

ABOUT THE PRODUCTION

When best-selling author Liz Jensen completed her fifth novel, The 9 th Life of Louis Drax, she was certain the book — a thriller centered around a boy in a coma — would never be made into a movie. Fortunately, one of her agents saw the story’s filmic potential, as did Oscar®-winning director Anthony Minghella (Best Director, The English Patient, 1996), who optioned it with his producing partner, Oscar® winner Sydney Pollack (Best Picture, Out of Africa, 1985). Minghella died in 2008, before he had a chance to make the film. But when producer and longtime Minghella associate Timothy Bricknell joined forces with Minghella’s son, actor Max Minghella, to form production company Blank Tape, they decided to make The 9th Life of Louis Drax their first project.

According to Jensen, the book was inspired in part by an unsolved mystery in her own family, the death of her maternal grandmother, who fell off a cliff in Switzerland while searching for her lost son. “I think in a way, because there was a mystery in my family about two people disappearing almost simultaneously, I felt the need to solve it somehow. And my way of doing that was to create another mystery, which ran kind of parallel to the real one, and could be solved.”

Jensen describes the book as a kind of ghost story in which the comatose young boy, Louis, is the ghost. “He’s half alive and half dead,” explains the author. “He’s in this weird borderline area where he’s not conscious, nor is he completely unconscious. There’s a lot going on in that clever little head of his, including solving the mystery of why he’s there. So he is a ghost who desperately wants to be alive again. But at the same time, he’s scared to be alive again, for reasons that will become clear.”

The novel had such a powerful impact on Max Minghella that he started writing an adaptation almost as soon as he finished reading it. “The universe and imagery that Liz created were so instantly cinematic to me,” he says. “I could also immediately identify ways to make it personal, which I think is an important piece of the puzzle when you’re adapting material. You want to feel there is something you can contribute. Something that is unique to you.”

Jensen says she was thrilled when she read Minghella’s screenplay of her book. “I was extremely impressed by the way he managed to capture the spirit of the novel while adding his own fantastic twists. There is something about this version that will

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send shivers down your spine. All those years ago when Max’s father intended to write and direct it but tragically wasn’t able to, he asked me, ‘If you could write the book all over again, what would you do differently?’ I remember saying immediately, ‘I would make it scarier.’ And that’s what Max has done.”

In 2013, when Minghella was cast opposite Daniel Radcliffe in the Alexandre Aja-directed fantasy thriller Horns, he took the opportunity to see if Aja might be a good fit for The 9th Life of Louis Drax. “I’ve always been a huge fan of Alex’s,” notes Minghella. “He’s an exciting director and I felt he was capable of making any kind of film. I had him in the back of my mind early on, but when we were talking on the set of Horns I asked him about the stories that interested him and the kind of films he wanted to make. Many of his ideas and themes directly correlated with The 9th Life of Louis Drax. It just felt like it was meant to be.”

Aja remembers their conversation well. “Max mentioned a story he was working on and I was intrigued because on many levels it was something I was looking for at the time — a mystery, a psychological thriller — that incorporated themes of childhood and the secrets that the human mind can hide.”

When he read the script, Aja says he found it at once original and touching. “It explored the power of childhood imagination, probed the world of the conscious, the unconscious and the supernatural, as well as the compelling intrigue of a love triangle. It’s such an unusual piece because there are several love stories going on at once: the doctor falling in love with the mother of his patient, the love of the mother for her child, the love between a violent, imperfect husband and his son. There is something very sophisticated in all the layers of this film that makes it unique.”

CASTING THE 9 th LIFE OF LOUIS DRAX

When it came to assembling the cast of The 9th Life of Louis Drax, the filmmakers knew that finding a young actor to play the title role, the 9-year-old at the center of the story, would be the biggest challenge. “Louis Drax is the most important of all the characters,” says Aja. “He’s a very smart little boy who has a peculiar way of speaking and a sharp view of the adults around him. He may also be the most mature person in the film.”

Louis is fascinated by the adult world, but also justifiably scared of it, according to Jensen. “He’s got an old head on his shoulders in many ways because he’s been through so much. He’s intuitive of the adults around him, what they want and the way they behave. He’s very aware of conflict and, as many children do, he fears growing up.”

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who could convey Louis’ precocious brilliance as well as the vulnerability beneath his prickly exterior. Vancouver-born Aiden Longworth was one of the first to audition and although more than 100 other boys from throughout North America and England were considered over the ensuing months, the filmmakers were drawn back to Aiden by his acting skill as well as his openness, cheery disposition and keen interest in science and technology.

The complex character of Dr. Allan Pascal serves as the audience’s eyes and ears. A celebrated pediatric neurologist and author, he oversees a renowned coma clinic and research center exclusively for the treatment of children. He believes that no matter how the brain has been injured, there is still a way to connect with a coma victim and bring him back to the surface.

When Louis is admitted into his care, Pascal is immediately intrigued by the unusual and tragic nature of his patient’s past medical history. But over time, he is also drawn to Louis’ mysterious and beautiful mother, Natalie. To portray the renowned and passionate doctor, the filmmakers turned to Jamie Dornan, best known for his mesmerizing performances as a serial killer in the hit BBC television series “The Fall” and more recently, as Christian Grey, a tormented business magnate in the box office-smash Fifty Shades of Grey.

“Dr. Allan Pascal is our way into the story,” says Minghella. “He is very charismatic, very handsome, very smart, and on the cutting edge of new technology and research in his field. But he ultimately falls prey to the enigmatic power of Natalie Drax, and that, for me, is the thrust of the film. All of Jamie’s work that I’ve seen has been extraordinary and I knew he would bring this character to life in a compelling way.”

Dornan says it was the exceptional quality of the writing and the complexity of Pascal’s character that persuaded him to take on the role. “Max has written such a brilliant, genre-bending script,” he says. “I hadn’t read anything like it before. It has both mystery and heart, two things you don’t see put together very often, and I genuinely fell in love with it.”

Dornan likens Natalie’s allure to that of the Sirens of Greek mythology: gorgeous creatures whose sad, sweet songs lured passing sailors to their deaths. “Natalie Drax has a Sirenesque quality that Allan Pascal cannot see,” says the actor. “Against his better judgment, he can’t do anything but fall for her. She has this effect on him that is beyond a simple attraction.” Equally crucial was the casting of Natalie, a brittle woman who has endured Louis’ multiple near-death experiences and a marriage to a violent drinker, only to find herself alone, with her son in a vegetative state and her husband — a suspect in Louis’

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fall — missing. “We needed an actress who could convincingly portray both an innocent and a seductress, and effortlessly transition between the two,” explains Bricknell.

Canadian actress Sarah Gadon was the filmmakers’ hands-down favorite for the role, both because of her chameleon-like quality as an actor and her delicate beauty. “Natalie Drax is the mother of a boy who, since he was born, has gone from one unlucky accident to another,” says Aja. “And she’s always been there for him, trying to save him. But she hides another side of herself, something darker. When I looked at Sarah’s previous work on screen, I was really struck by the fact that she played a very different character in every film and was almost impossible to recognize. After talking to her about the complexity of her character, I knew she was our Natalie Drax.”

Gadon says she was attracted to the multi-layered aspect of the role. “At the beginning of the film you read her as this very stoic, loving young mother. But as the story unfolds, you realize she’s a deeply troubled woman. Her son, Louis, is the number one man in her life and part of the reason why her marriage falls apart. When she first meets Dr. Pascal, it’s all about Louis’ condition, but their interactions soon escalate to another level, until she really starts to look at him as a kind of savior.”

Playing Gadon’s husband and Louis’ stepfather, Peter Drax, is Aaron Paul, best known for his Emmy®-winning performance as Jesse Pinkman in AMC’s “Breaking Bad.” A heavy drinker given to occasional violent outbursts, Peter loves his stepson. But at a picnic celebrating Louis’ 9th birthday, the boy falls off a cliff and nearly dies. After the incident, Peter, the prime suspect, is nowhere to be found.

Paul says he found himself engrossed by the mysterious story from page one of Minghella’s screenplay. “It’s rare for me to sit down and read a script in one sitting — it has to be that good — and this is that good,” says Paul. “I was excited to jump on board.”

Golden Globe® and Emmy®-nominated actor Oliver Platt plays the pivotal supporting role of child psychiatrist Dr. Michael Perez, who treats Louis at Peter’s insistence. Dr. Perez recognizes that there are deeper problems that his patient is not willing to discuss. “It’s a crucial relationship within the story,” says Platt. “On a lot of different levels, Louis is a psychiatrist’s dream because he’s so complex and so smart. Perez understands that the boy has a complicated relationship with authority and affection. He needs to make a safe place for him in order to get him to talk. And I think that’s why Louis becomes attached to him.”

Additional supporting cast members include Molly Parker who, in her role as Detective Dalton, leads the inquiry into Louis’ plunge off the cliff. Though a great deal of suspicion falls on Peter Drax, who has not been seen since the time of Louis’ fall, Dalton is relentless in her pursuit of every possible lead. Golden Globe®-winning actress Barbara Hershey plays Violet, Peter Drax’s mother, whose love for her son and loathing

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for his wife, Natalie, compels her to reveal new information that may or may not provide clues to her missing son’s whereabouts. Julian Wadham appears as Dr. Janek, the hospital’s senior surgeon and a friend of Dr. Pascal’s. That friendship is challenged, both professionally and personally, as he watches Pascal’s radical treatment methods for young Louis and an intimate relationship develop between Pascal and Natalie.

Another essential yet elusive character in the story is the amorphous black sea monster that slithers through Louis’ unconscious mind as he lays in a coma. The look of the monster was a collaboration between the filmmakers and KNB EFX Group, which specializes in character prosthetics, animatronics and creatures creation. “The concept of the monster is the sea come to life,” explains makeup effects supervisor Michael McCarty. “It’s like a living reef, so it’s covered in barnacles and other coral life with seaweed draped all over it. It’s inspired by Louis’ favorite book in the film, The Living Sea, by Jacques Cousteau.” Made primarily from foam latex, urethane and rubber, the suit weighs about 40 pounds, and twice that when wet, making it a significant physical challenge for the man wearing it.

CREATING LOUIS’ WORLD

Although Jensen set her novel in France, screenwriter and producer Max Minghella chose to set the film adaptation closer to home in San Francisco. Director Alexandre Aja wanted the film to have a timeless feeling, says production designer Rachel O’Toole. “He didn’t want it to feel overly contemporary or overly retro. He definitely likes a lot of layering and a lot of texture. And he’s not afraid of color or richness. He provided a lot of input, which is great, but he also gave me a lot of freedom.”

Aja praises O’Toole for her role in realizing the visual elements of Minghella’s highly imaginative script. “Rachel created absolutely amazing sets,” he says. “Every location has some kind of singularity that is visually striking and that belongs to the story and the way that Max wrote the script. I have never read such a visual script before. And my role as the director was to take that and make it even more spectacular somehow.”

One of the themes the director weaves throughout the film is water in its many forms. “It’s a great way to describe the sort of bobbing up above the surface into the real world and then below the surface into the unconscious that Louis experiences,” observes producer Timothy Bricknell. “I think it will really help carry the audience from one world into the other.”

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The 9th Life of Louis Drax marks cinematographer Maxime Alexandre’s ninth collaboration with Aja. “I am extremely thankful to work with someone who believes 100 percent in what I am doing and gives me the freedom to share unconventional ideas,” says the director of photography, whose numerous credits also include P2 and The Crazies.

Principal photography on The 9th Life of Louis Drax took place for 36 days in and around Vancouver, primarily on location. One of the primary filming venues was Riverview Hospital, a century-old mental-health facility that closed most of its operations in 2012 and now sits largely empty. At its peak in the 1950s, it housed approximately 5,000 patients and a number of ghostly sightings have been reported among its historic buildings and park-like surroundings. The hospital was used to shoot scenes including the National Hospital’s surgery rooms, morgue, emergency room, incubation room, waiting room and corridors, as well as the psychiatric hospital, Dr. Perez’s office and even the police station.

The elaborate set for Dr. Pascal’s renowned coma bay was built on Stage 2 at the Bridge Studios in Burnaby, British Columbia, just east of Vancouver. In designing the ward, where Louis spends most of the film lying in a vegetative state, O’Toole says she took inspiration from architect Frank Lloyd Wright and his philosophy that structures should be “in harmony with humanity and nature.”

The filmmakers needed a dramatic exterior for the scene in which Louis celebrates his ninth birthday at a picnic with his parents and then, inexplicably, plummets from a high cliff. “Trying to recreate a San Francisco cliff area for a picnic in the middle of winter in Vancouver was a big challenge,” recalls producer Shawn Williamson. “We shot those elements in White Cliff Park, an absolutely gorgeous park with natural cliffs that fall off into the water. It suited us very well except that it wasn’t actually high enough. So we had to incorporate visual effects to create a lot of elements for Louis’ fall.”

For the cave in which the sea monster resides, the filmmakers traveled about an hour and a half north of Vancouver to an old deserted train-station tunnel that was completely dressed by the art department.

CLOSING REMARKS

Bricknell believes that the appeal of The 9th Life of Louis Drax is that it tells a story that is at once strange and universal. “For me, it’s the choices the characters make that are very human and relatable,” says the producer. “The idea of a successful and genuinely good-hearted married man being blinded by a beautiful young woman who appears to need him so desperately is a compelling, if not unusual, problem. The other part of the story that is fascinating is the continual shifting between Louis’

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unconscious and the real world, how the two reflect each other, and how they ultimately collide.”

Director Alexandre Aja adds that the film’s ending — like the story itself — is satisfying both as a mystery and a love story. “I think what’s really original about The 9th Life of Louis Drax is that the twist is an emotional one. It’s what turns the story from pure psychological thriller into a powerful drama. And that’s something you don’t usually see.”

ABOUT THE CAST

Northern Irish born actor JAMIE DORNAN (Dr. Alan Pascal) will star as the lead, Christian Grey, in the eagerly anticipated film Fifty Shades of Grey. This screen adaptation of the international best-selling novel, which has sold over 100 million copies, is set for a worldwide release Valentine's Weekend 2015.

Dornan received huge critical acclaim for his portrayal of a chilling serial killer in the BBC's crime drama “The Fall,”  in which he co-stars opposite Gillian Anderson. The series launch was the highest rated drama for the channel in eight years and earned him a TV BAFTA nomination for Best Actor and two IFTA wins for Best Lead Actor and Rising Star in 2014. He also won the Breakthrough Award at the 2014 Broadcasting Press Guild Awards for his performance and the drama received a nomination for Best Drama at the National Television Awards. The series was shown on BBC2 in the UK and was available on Netflix in the US. The second series of this rating-winning drama was transmitted in the winter of 2014 in the UK and aired early January 2015 in the US. Earlier this year Dornan starred in Channel 4’s mini-series “New Worlds” which aired in the UK Spring 2014. The historical drama depicts the terror and turbulence experienced in both England and America at the time of the English Civil War. His first US television series aired in 2011—Dornan played the complex dual-role of Sheriff Graham/The Huntsman for three seasons in ABC’s fantasy drama “Once Upon a Time,” in which he starred opposite Ginnifer Goodwin, Jennifer Morrison and Robert Carlyle.

Dornan’s feature debut was in Sofia Coppola’s 2006 Oscar®-winning historic epic, Marie Antoinette in which he took the role of Count Axel Fersen, the lover to Kirstin Dunst’s eponymous Marie Antoinette.  In 2009, he starred in the British independent film Shadows in the Sun, with Jean Simmons and James Wilby. Dornan played the lead role of Joe in the story of a young loner who changes the lives of one family by helping them rediscover their roots. In 2013, he completed filming the indie-produced Belgium film Flying Home, alongside Anthony Head and Max Pirkis—it was released across Europe in 2014.

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It has been announced that Jamie will portray the lead role, Pat Quinlan, in Parallel Films’ The Siege of Jadotville, a military based story on the 1961 seige of 150 UN Irish troops in the Congo. Furthermore, Jamie will star in The Weinstein Co’s Untitled John Wells project (aka Adam Jones), opposite Bradley Cooper and Uma Thurman.

Canadian Screen Award-winning actress SARAH GADON (Natalie Drax) was born in Toronto, Canada.

Gadon's passion for film has led her to pursue a degree in Cinema Studies at the University of Toronto. Her breakthrough role came when director David Cronenberg cast her opposite Michael Fassbender as Emma Jung in A Dangerous Method, which premiered at the Venice International Film Festival (2011).

Gadon co-starred in Cronenberg's next film, an adaptation of Don DeLillo's Cosmopolis, which premiered at the Cannes International Film Festival (2012), along with Brandon Cronenberg's Antiviral. She has since continued her working relationship with Cronenberg appearing in Maps to the Stars, which also premiered in competition at Cannes (2014).

Gadon’s other film credits include Julian Jarrold’s A Royal Night Out, Belle directed by Amma Asante, Enemy directed by Denis Villeneuve and Universal’s Dracula Untold.

Gadon recently starred opposite Logan Lerman in James Schamus’s Indignation, which garnered rave reviews at the Sundance Film Festival in 2016. Gadon was last seen on the small screen in Hulu’s nine-part miniseries, “11/22/63,” opposite James Franco which started streaming in February 2016.

Gadon recently wrapped filming The Death and Life of John F. Donovan. Later this summer she begins production on Netflix’s Margaret Atwood drama, Alias Grace, in which she stars as Grace Marks. Both projects are set to be released in 2017.

In 2015, Gadon was announced as the face of Armani’s makeup and skincare line. “Sarah has the most delicate, classically beautiful facial features, with her blonde hair, clear complexion and crystalline eyes, and for me she is an example of contemporary beauty,” said Armani.

It’s hard to believe Canadian born actor AIDEN LONGWORTH (Louis Drax), now almost 12, was only 10 years old when filming The Ninth Life of Louis Drax. Acting since he was 7, Longworth has won over everyone he has worked with, and is quickly developing a reputation in the film community for being a lovable and quick witted young actor.

His recent work includes a role on NBC’s new action/adventure/drama pilot “Timeless” directed by Neil Marshall (“Game of Thrones”), playing the son of the much

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loved duo Scully (Gillian Anderson) and Mulder (David Duchovny) in the 2016 “X-Files” revival, and the younger version of Rip Hunter (Arthur Darvill) in the CW’s “DC Legends of Tomorrow”, where he saves the day in a pivotal and climactic scene, British accent and all!!

Longworth has also just booked a role on “Opus” BBC America’s episodic series based on the cult Dirk   Gently’s   Holistic Detective Agency novels by “Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy” author Douglas Adams.  Longworth will play the younger Todd (older version played by Elijah Wood).

He has also worked alongside Liam Hemsworth, Bruce Dern, Billy Bob Thorton and John Malkovich in Cut Bank, as well as Simon Pegg and Toni Collette in Hector and the Search for Happiness. Other television roles include BBC’s Intruders, A&E’s “The Returned”, CW’s award winning series “Supernatural”, and he was recently nominated for a Joey Award for his role on CW’s “The Tomorrow People”. Longworth has also played a heartwarming role on The Christmas Story 2. Following in the footsteps of his grandfather’s Robertson Wood (Stratford, Summer Stock, Manitoba Theatre Centre, CBC Radio and TV Drama) and film actor David Longworth, acting seems to be in his blood. Longworth, who was born in Vancouver, BC likes spending time with his family and playing with his Yorkie Pom Yoshi. He has an older brother, Rowan, and a younger sister, Hannah, who are also actors. His father Kris works in the film industry as a carpenter, and his mother Adrienne is a school teacher.

When not involved in a Film or TV production Longworth attends school and like his contemporaries, he is interested in current technology. He likes to draw, tinker, and has been memorizing new algorithms for the Rubik's cube and has been working his way through the Naruto series. He also enjoys gardening.

If the acting thing doesn't work out Longworth says that he “wants to be an architect or perhaps a vet!”

OLIVER PLATT (Dr. Allan Pascal) has enjoyed success in film, television and on stage. He returned to television last year as Dr. Daniel Charles in NBC’s “Chicago Med,” part of Dick Wolf’s “Chicago” franchise. The show premiered to high ratings and will premiere its second season this fall. Prior to that, Platt had a leading role in Showtime’s hit series, “The Big C,” opposite Laura Linney.

On the big screen, he will soon appear in Warren Beatty’s Rules Don’t Apply, taking place in the world of Howard Hughes and Shut In, with Naomi Watts and Jacob Tremblay, which will both be released on November 11, 2016. He recently wrapped Frank and Cindy with Rene Russo, which Netflix will distribute.

Other film credits include Lucky Them, Kill the Messenger, Cutbank and Chef, which opened at the 2014 SXSW Film Festival, where he served as juror. Platt has also

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appeared in Ginger & Rosa, Funny Bones, the fifth installment of the blockbuster series X-Men: First Class, Love and Other Drugs, 2012, Ron Howard’s Frost/Nixon opposite Frank Langella, Kevin Bacon and Sam Rockwell, and Please Give, which won critical acclaim at the 2010 Sundance Film Festival and Tribeca Film Festival.

Platt is a founding partner of Animal Kingdom, a media production, sales and financing company. Animal Kingdom’s first film, Destin Daniel Cretin's Short Term Twelve won both the Grand Jury and Audience prizes at the 2013 SXSW Film Festival.

Platt made his producing debut on the indie film Big Night, which was co-directed by Stanley Tucci and Campbell Scott. He would later re-team with Tucci in The Impostors. In television, Platt earned a SAG Award® nomination for his performance as “George Steinbrenner” on the hit miniseries “The Bronx is Burning.” Other accolades include a Golden Globe® and back-to-back Emmy® nominations for his portrayal of Russell Tupper in “Huff,” as well as an Emmy® nomination for his portrayal as White House Counsel Oliver Babish on the popular political drama “The West Wing.” He earned another Emmy® nomination for his recurring role as flamboyant TV producer Freddy Prune on “Nip/Tuck.”

After graduating from Tufts University with a degree in drama, Platt immediately began working in regional theater, as well as off-Broadway. His many theater credits include performances in the Lincoln Center production of Ubu and Jules Feiffer’s Elliot Loves and Twelfth Night for which Platt received rave reviews for his portrayal of “Sir Toby Belch.” On Broadway, he starred in the 2009 revival of “Guys and Dolls,” portraying gambler Nathan Detroit. Platt received a Tony® nomination for Best Performance by a Leading Actor in a Play for his work on Broadway in Conor McPherson’s Shining City, which was also nominated for Best Play.

The son of a career diplomat, Platt was born in Washington, D.C., and spent part of his childhood in Asia and the Middle East. Platt now resides in New York with his wife and three children.

MOLLY PARKER (Dalton) is best known for her starring role as “Alma Garrett” in David Milch’s acclaimed HBO series “Deadwood,” and for playing “Jackie Sharp” in “House Of Cards” opposite Kevin Spacey and Robin Wright for Netflix.  In other recent television, she starred in “Swingtown” on CBS and “The Firm” on NBC. Memorable characters also include “Lisa Marshall” on “Dexter” for Showtime and “Rabbi Ari” on “Six Feet Under” for HBO.

Parker made her feature film debut in Lynne Stopkewich's Kissed, for which she received a Genie Award for Best Actress. Other features include Katja von Garnier’s Iron Jawed Angels opposite Hillary Swank and Angelica Huston and Philip Kaufman’s Hemingway And Gelhorn opposite Clive Owen and Nicole Kidman, both for

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HBO Films; John Hillcoat’s The Road opposite Viggo Mortensen and Charlize Theron; Allen Coulter’s Hollywoodland opposite Adrien Brody; and Neil LaBute's The Wicker Man, opposite Nicolas Cage.

She has starred in numerous independent films, including Who Loves The Sun opposite Lukas Haas and Adam Scott, for which she won the Best Actress Award at the Beverly Hills Film Festival; Julia Dyer’s The Playroom which premiered at the Tribeca Film Festival, Oliver Sherman opposite Garrett Dillahunt and Donal Logue; Bruce Macdonald’s Trigger (Genie Award nomination); Gillies MacKinnon's Pure; Wayne Wang’s Center Of The World opposite Peter Sarsgaard for which she was nominated for an Independent Spirit Award; Istvan Szabo’s Sunshine opposite Ralph Fiennes and Rachel Weisz;  Keith Gordon's Waking The Dead opposite Billy Crudup and Jennifer Connelly; Menno Meyjes’ Max opposite John Cusack;  Michael Winterbottom’s Wonderland; Wiebke von Carolsfeld's Marion Bridge for which she won the Genie Award winner for Best Supporting Actress;  Paul Gross’s Men With Brooms and Bruce Sweeney’s Last Wedding, for which she won a Genie Award; Jeremy Podeswa's The Five Senses opposite Mary Louise-Parker; Sturla Gunnarson’s Rare Birds opposite William Hurt; her second film with Lynn Stopkewich, Suspicious River which premiered at the Venice Film Festival and Rodrigo Garcia’s Nine Lives.

She will next be seen in the Amazon original series Goliath, written by David E. Kelly, and Ewan McGregor’s directorial debut American Pastoral for Lakeshore Entertainment.

Multi-award-winning actress BARBARA HERSHEY (Violet Drax) has showcased her talent in some of Hollywood's most memorable films, television movies, miniseries and series. Hershey, winner of an Emmy® and Golden Globe® Award for Outstanding Lead Actress in a Miniseries or Special for “A Killing In A Small Town” also garnered unprecedented back-to-back Best Actress Awards at the Cannes Film Festival for her performances in Shy People and A World Apart, as well as an Academy Award®

Nomination for The Portrait Of A Lady and a BAFTA Nomination for Black Swan.The Hollywood native made her feature film debut in With Six You Get Egg Roll

and with roles in The Baby Maker and Boxcar Bertha Hershey quickly advanced to starring roles.

The 1980's catapulted Hershey's film career to star status. She starred in The Stunt Man with Peter O'Toole; The Right Stuff with Ed Harris, Sam Shepard and Scott Glenn; The Natural with Robert Redford and Robert Duvall; Hannah And Her Sisters with Woody Allen, Mia Farrow, Dianne Wiest and Michael Caine; Hoosiers with Gene Hackman and Dennis Hopper; Tin Men with Richard Dreyfuss and Danny DeVito; Shy People with Jill Clayburgh; The Last Temptation Of Christ with Willem Dafoe and Harvey

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Keitel; Beaches with Bette Midler and John Heard and A World Apart with Tim Roth.Hershey triumphantly returned to television in 1990 with her award-winning

performance as ‘Candy Morrison’ in “A Killing in a Small Town” with Brian Dennehy and Hal Holbrook. She continued her string of television successes with her portrayal of ‘Clara Allen’ in the miniseries “Return to Lonesome Dove” with Jon Voight and Louis Gossett, Jr. and also with her role as ‘Dr. Francesca Alberghetti’ in David E. Kelly's “Chicago Hope” on CBS.

During the same period, Hershey remained active in feature films. She was nominated for an Oscar® and Golden Globe® for her performance in The Portrait of a Lady with Nicole Kidman and John Malkovich and also starred in Merchant-Ivory's A Soldier’s Daughter Never Cries and the award-winning Lantana from acclaimed Australian director Ray Lawrence.

In 2007 Hershey starred in both The Bird Can’t Fly directed by Threes Anna and Love Comes Lately directed by Jan Schutte, both premiered to critical acclaim at the San Sebastian and Toronto Film Festivals, respectively.

Following, Hershey again returned to television to star with Shirley McClaine in Kevin Sullivan’s “Anne of Green Gables” for PBS, for which she received a Gemini Award for Best Performance by an Actress in a Featured Supporting Role in a Dramatic Program or Mini-Series.

Next, Hershey co-starred opposite Jeroen Krabbé as ‘Helene’ in Schweitzer, Gavin Millar’s biopic of Nobel Peace-Prize winning physician, philosopher and theologian Albert Schweitzer.

In December 2009, Hershey co-starred as the iconic ‘Mrs. Hubbard’ in the new film adaptation of Agatha Christie’s Murder on the Orient Express, part of the new Poirot film series, for ITV with David Suchet.

Hershey co-starred opposite Rose Byrne and Patrick Wilson in James Wan’s Insidious, the story of a family who is beset by vengeful spirits from another realm. The film premiered at the 2011 Midnight Madness at the Toronto Film Festival and went on to become one of the most profitable films of that year. The sequel, Insidious: Chapter 2, released in September 2013 with Hershey reprising her role of ‘Lorraine.’

In 2011, she also co-starred opposite Natalie Portman in Darren Aronofsky’s Oscar® nominated film Black Swan for Fox Searchlight. The film was chosen as the opening night film at the 2011 Venice Film Festival and had its North American premiere at the Toronto Film Festival. In addition to Barbara’s BAFTA nomination, the cast as a whole was nominated for a SAG award.

In late 2012, Hershey was seen in “Left To Die,” a television film event for LIFETIME directed by Leon Ichaso (multi-award winner for Pinero). Based on true events, Hershey portrayed “Sandra Chase” an innocent woman who was imprisoned in Ecuador

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after being arrested for drug trafficking.Hershey can be seen as “Cora/Queen of Hearts,” mother to Lana Parilla’s

“Regina Mills / Evil Queen,” in the second season of the ABC hit series, “Once Upon A Time” and reprised her role in a season four episode. Hershey also appeared in the spin-off series, “ Once Upon A Time In Wonderland,” which aired in March of 2014.

Hershey co-starred in David Lascher’s Sister as “Susan Presser”, opposite Reid Scott, which premiered at the Tribeca Film Festival in April 2014. Hershey can currently be seen on the A&E TV series, “ Damien,” the continuation of the Omen, the kid all grown up. She portrays the series regular role as “Ann Rutledge”, a powerful woman who has been tasked with making sure Damien fulfills his destiny as the Antichrist.

Hershey resides in Los Angeles.

Three time Emmy Award® winner AARON PAUL (Peter Drax) is one of the most sought after actors in Hollywood. For five seasons, Paul portrayed the role of the beloved ‘Jesse Pinkman’ opposite Bryan Cranston in AMC’s critically acclaimed Emmy®

Award-winning and Golden Globe® Award-winning series “Breaking Bad.” In addition to his three Emmy® wins for Best Supporting Actor, for a total of five nominations for five seasons, Paul also received a Golden Globe® Award nomination in 2014.

2016 will be a busy year for Paul. Most recently he began filming Season 2 of the Hulu original series “The Path”

on location in New York. The series, which Paul stars in and produces through his production company Lucid Road Productions, examines a couple struggling with relationships, marriage and power. Each episode takes an in-depth look at what it means to choose between the life we live and the life we want. Season 2 will premiere in 2017.

Earlier this year, Paul starred in Triple 9 opposite Kate Winslet, Woody Harrelson, Chiwetel Ejiofor, Casey Affleck and Gal Gadot for director John Hillcoat. The film, which revolved around a crew of dirty cops blackmailed by the Russian mob to execute a virtually impossible heist, opened nationwide in February 2016.

In March, Paul starred alongside Helen Mirren and Alan Rickman in the war drama Eye in the Sky for director Gavin Hood and in June he co-starred opposite Kevin Hart and Dwayne Johnson in Central Intelligence. In July, audiences saw Paul star in the drama Fathers and Daughters alongside Amanda Seyfried, Diane Kruger, Jane Fonda, and Russell Crowe.

Later this year, audiences will see Paul star in writer/director Zach Whedon’s film Come & Find Me, which is the story of a man who must track down his missing girlfriend after he realizes she’s not who she is pretending to be. Paul also voices the

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character ‘Nyx Ulric’ in Takeshi Nozue’s Kingsglaive: Final Fantasy XV which will open in theatres in August 2016.

Paul also helped develop and pitch Netflix’s hit animated series “BoJack Horseman,” in which he stars alongside Will Arnett, Amy Sedaris and Alison Brie. Recently, the series won Best Animated Series at the 2016 Critics’ Choice Award and has been renewed by Netflix for a third season, which debuted July 22, 2016.

In 2014, Paul starred in Ridley Scott’s Exodus: Gods & Kings opposite Christian Bale and Joel Edgerton. 

Prior to Exodus: Gods & Kings, Paul starred in Kat Candler’s Hellion. Paul served as executive producer alongside producers Jeff Nichols and Sarah Green on the film which premiered at the Sundance Film Festival.

He also starred in the film adaptation of Nick Hornsby’s novel A Long Way Down alongside Toni Collette and Pierce Brosnan for director Pascal Chaumeil.

Prior to that, Paul starred in the DreamWorks’ blockbuster Need for Speed for director Scott Waugh. The film, which grossed over $200 million at the box office and is based on the popular video game, tells the story of a street racer who joins a cross country race to seek vengeance for the murder of his best friend.

Paul’s other film credits include James Ponsoldt’s film Smashed alongside Mary Elizabeth Winstead and Mission: Impossible III alongside Tom Cruise.

When not acting, Paul is a passionate music fan, an avid traveler, and an advocate for the Kind Campaign, a non-profit organization founded by his wife Lauren that seeks to raise awareness and healing to the negative and lasting effects of girl-against-girl crime and bullying.

ABOUT THE FILMMAKERS

Born in Paris on August 7, 1978 to a French director and a cinema critic, ALEXANDRE AJA (Director) practically grew up on a film set during his formative years. His roles range from that of writer, director and producer, alongside his frequent collaborator and friend Grégory Levasseur. He is a member of the so-called “Splat Pack”, a term coined for a new wave of directors who have revolutionized the horror genre including Rob Zombie, Zack Snyder and Eli Roth.

Aja made his directorial debut at the age of eighteen with the short film Over The Rainbow, which received a Golden Palm Award nomination at the Cannes Film Festival. In 1999, after graduating from Sorbonne in Philosophy, he wrote the screenplay and directed his first feature Furia, a futurist movie starring Marion Cotillard based on a short story by Julio Cortázar.

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on the map for the horror genre. The French slasher pushed the gore and tension envelope at the Sundance and Toronto Film Festivals, where it garnered media acclaim for Aja. The film was nominated for the grand prize at the Amsterdam Fantastic Film Festival, earned Aja awards for best direction and best fantasy film at the Catalonian International Film Festival and placed him on Variety’s – Ten Directors to Watch list in 2004.

For his third feature, American director Wes Craven asked Aja to come up with a concept for the remake of his 1977 film The Hills Have Eyes, which became a cult classic. After the success of Hills, Aja wrote, directed and produced Mirrors, a supernatural thriller for FOX starring Kiefer Sutherland and Paula Patton. He also produced the indie thriller P2 directed by Franck Khalfoun for Summit. In 2010, Aja directed and produced Piranha 3D along with Dimension Films. The fresh mix of humor and gore, played homage to the popcorn films of the past, garnered unanimous positive reviews and became another cult success.

Aja’s most recent film, Horns - based on the novel by Joe Hill, stars Daniel Radcliffe and was produced by Mandalay and Red Granite Pictures. This supernatural romance thriller premiered at the Toronto Film Festival in 2013, and was hailed by Bloody Disgusting as an “edgy, audacious and affecting romantic fairy tale, dark comedy and compelling mystery unlike anything you’ve seen before,” it was released by TWC/Radius in October 2014.

In the past few years Aja has expanded his production slate and has produced a wide range of projects. The most recent success was Maniac – a film he co-wrote and produced alongside Oscar® winning producer Thomas Langmann and starring Elijah Wood. It had its world premiere at the 2012 Cannes Film Festival and was released by IFC Films in 2013. Alex has also produced two films with FOX International: The Pyramid, directed by his long-time collaborator Gregory Levasseur, is an adventure-horror film set in an ancient Egyptian pyramid released in December 2014; and The Other Side of the Door, a haunted-house possession thriller he produced in India, directed by Johannes Roberts.

Other projects in development are Scanners – a re-imagining of the Cronenberg cult original as a new espionage television show with Dimension Films; Wedding Gown; – a psychological thriller with TF1 International, and Cobra: The Space Pirate – Aja’s lifelong dream project based on the Japanese manga and one of the most successful franchises in Japan. Aja is developing this big-budget space adventure with Studio Orange who is setting it up to be “Star Wars” for a new generation.

MAX MINGHELLA (Screenwriter) is a British actor & filmmaker. His acting credits include The Ides of March, The Internship and The Social Network.  He starred

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opposite Rachel Weisz in Alejandro Amenabar's international box office hit Agora. This historical epic was Spain's highest grossing film of 2009 and the winner of seven Goya Awards. Other credits include Syriana, Elvis & Annabelle and 10 Years. 

Minghella will next be seen opposite Ellen Page in Into The Forest, based on the Jean Hegland novel.  He has a recurring role on Fox’s “The Mindy Project.” 

In 2014, Minghella served as executive producer on the Working Title film The Two Faces of January, based upon the novel by Patricia Highsmith.   He attended Columbia University and the National Youth Theater in London. 

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CREDITS

Summit Entertainment andMiramax Present

A Blank Tape / Brightlight Pictures ProductionIn Association with Fire Axe Pictures

THE 9TH LIFE OF LOUIS DRAX

A Film byAlexandre Aja

Jamie DornanSarah Gadon

Aiden LongworthOliver PlattMolly Parker

with Barbara Hersheyand Aaron Paul

Julian WadhamJane McGregor

Casting byMaureen Webb and

Colleen Bolton

Associate ProducerJustine Raczkiewicz

Music byPatrick Watson

Costume DesignerCarla Hetland

Edited byBaxter

Production Design byRachel O’Toole

Director of PhotographyMaxime Alexandre

Executive ProducersZanne Devine

Rosanne Korenberg

Produced byShawn Williamson

Alexandre Aja

Produced byTimothy Bricknell and

Max Minghella

Based Upon the Novel byLiz Jensen

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Screenplay byMax Minghella

Directed byAlexandre Aja

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