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  Nicole   March 23, 2015

VARIETYGemma Arterton, Paddy Considine and Glenn Close are to star in “She Who Brings Gifts,” which Altitude Film Sales has boarded. Pic is adapted by M.R. Carey from his novel “The Girl with all the Gifts.”

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“She Who Brings Gifts” is the story of Melanie, a girl who is full of questions about the world. Every morning, Melanie waits in her cell to be collected for class. When they come for her, Sergeant Parks keeps his gun pointing at her while two of his people strap her into the wheelchair. She thinks they don’t like her. She jokes that she won’t bite. But they don’t laugh. Melanie is a very special girl.

The film is due to shoot in the U.K. May 2015 and is produced by Camille Gatin, co-producer of James Marsh’s “Shadow Dancer” and Ricky Gervais’ “Special Correspondents,” co-starring Eric Bana, and Angus Lamont, producer of the Berlin Competition jury award-winning “’71,” directed by Yann Demange. The feature has been developed with the support of the BFI Film Fund.

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The screenplay for “She Who Brings Gifts” appeared on the Brit List, which is a compendium of stellar scripts by non-U.S. writers, set up to complement the U.S. Black List. Scripts that have made the list include “The King’s Speech,” “My Week with Marilyn” and “The Best Exotic Marigold Hotel.”

Gatin said, “It’s hugely exciting to combine Mike Carey’s truly original script and Colm McCarthy’s dynamic yet sensitive style, with such a terrific cast.”

Lamont added, “Melanie’s story is a completely unique take on a much loved genre, seamlessly blending together a lonely child’s search for love and family with a terrifying journey where she controls the fate of the last adult humans on earth.”

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