Saoirse Ronan and Jack Lowden are to step down from production banner The Outrun. The company’s debut feature The Outrun, starring Ronan, recently premiered at Sundance 2024.
Saoirse Ronan (Little Women) and Jack Lowden (Slow Horses) will step down from their production banner Arcade Pictures. Lowden founded Arcade Pictures in 2019 alongside producer Dominic Norris (Modern Life is Rubbish). Ronan joined as a company director in 2021. Norris will remain at the company.
Following a world premiere at Sundance Film Festival, the company’s debut feature, The Outrun, is set to have its international premiere at the Berlin Film Festival next week. Arcade Pictures unveiled the project in 2022.
“Arcade was formed to make ‘The Outrun’ and Dominic will continue to drive that banner’s train,” said a spokesperson on behalf of Arcade Pictures. “Jack and Saoirse are excited to celebrate the film as it makes its debut and beyond, and will continue looking for more passion projects to develop together in the future.”
The Outrun is a film adaptation of Amy Liptrot’s addiction memoir of the same name directed by Nora Fingscheidt. In the film, Ronan plays Rona, a woman struggling with alcoholism who, after losing control of her life, goes into rehab and then escapes to Scotland’s Orkney Islands, where she reconnects with the land in which she grew up.
The cast includes Paapa Essiedu (Gangs of London), Stephane Dillane (Game of Thrones) and Saskia Reeves (Slow Horses).
The adaptation was co-written by Fingscheidt and Liptrot. Protagonist Pictures are repping worldwide sales.
