Ezra Miller to star in Echo Lake thriller The Mourner!!

Ezra Miller will be starring in the new Echo Lake film, The Mourner. Deadline reported this news. The film is being adapted from the novel Itamu Hito (The Mourner), written by Arata Tendo. The book won the Naoki Prize in 2008 for the novel. It was actually turned into a Japanese-language adaptation in 2015.

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The Mourner follows a jaded and embittered homicide detective on the trail of murderous sex traffickers, who discovers new spiritual meaning in her life when she comes across a mystical young man (Miller) whose calling in life is to mourn the dead, who have no one to mourn for them.

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Casper Kiriya (Last Knights) will be doing the film from a script from Robin Shushan (AMC’s Feed The Beast). Mike Marcus will produce for Echo Lake Entertainment, along with Kiriya. Production is planned for summer 2019.