Academy Award winner Jessie Buckley ( Hamnet ) and Academy Award nominee Paul Mescal ( Hamnet ) are reuniting in Hold On To Your Angels , written and to be directed by Academy Award nominated filmmaker Benh Zeitlin ( Beasts Of The Southern Wild ).

Plan B ( Moonlight ) will produce with Alex Coco ( Anora ) under his Rapt Film banner. The Veterans is handling international sales, with domestic distribution rights represented by CAA Media Finance.

The hot project will be introduced to buyers at this month’s Cannes Marché. Production is set to begin in February.

Set on the edge of South Louisiana, Hold On To Your Angels “follows a hell-bound outlaw (Mescal) and a ferocious shepherd of lost souls (Buckley) who fall in catastrophic love as their crumbling bayou paradise drags them under.”

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“ Hold On To Your Angels is the most impossible love story I’ve ever witnessed — an outlaw romance for the end of America, set on the crumbling edge of South Louisiana.…