Rodrigo Santoro, Romola Garai, Tony Hale and Zosia Mamet also star in writer-director Steven Bernstein’s (Decoding Annie Parker) black-and-white pic about Welsh poet Dylan Thomas.
The film is a fictional portrait of Thomas’s last day at New York watering hole the White Horse Tavern, leading up to his untimely death at age 39. Ifans portrays the bohemian word master who had reached significant celebrity during the 1950s with such poems as Do Not Go Gentle Into That
The movie was first shown at the Rio film festival in 2016 and then again at the Tallinn film festival in 2017 but producers claim those were unfinished versions of the film and that additional post-production and editing work has now been carried out.
K Street is planning to release the film stateside either at the end of this year or early next year. The company is also planning to take it to markets such as the AFM in November. Lightning Entertainment was previously aboard for international sales.
K Street’s releases to date have included doc And The Winner Isn’t and rom-com Alex Eve.