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While speaking to her at Sundance, I remarked how incredible the upcoming year is for Riley Keough, adding David Robert Mitchell, Trey Edward Shults, and Charlie McDowell to her resume, one that already includes George Miller, Andrea Arnold, and Steven Soderbergh (who she’ll also be re-teaming with this year). We can now add two more of our favorite directors to the list: Jeremy Saulnier and Lars von Trier.

First up, the Green Room and Blue Ruin director’s next film is Hold the Dark, which he’s making for Netflix. Along with Keough, Jeffrey Wright, Alexander Skarsgard, James Badge Dale, and James Bloor have also joined the cast. The adventure thriller is based on William Giraldi‘s novel, which follows a wolf expert (Wright) who comes to Alaska to investigate disappearing children with the prime suspect being — you guessed it — wolves. Keough plays the mother of a son who died, while her husband (Skarsgard) goes wild when he returns from Iraq, and is being tracked by a detective (Dale). Promising to be another dark, brutal thriller, a shoot will begin this March for the Macon Blair-scripted film. [THR]

Next up, the Nymphomaniac director is also planning to shoot his follow-up starting in March, the English-language serial killer drama The House That Jack Built. With Matt Dillon in the lead role, it will take place over 12 years, tracking the life of a serial killer named Jack. Keough and Sofie Grabol (The Killing) have now joined the project, according to THR, playing two women who “cross paths” with our lead.

They join Bruno Ganz (Downfall, Wings of Desire) who will play a mysterious figure named Verge, who engages Jack in a recurring conversation about his actions and thoughts. The film — split into “five incidents” (aka the murders) and then the “digressions” in between — follows Jack as he attempts to create the “ultimate artwork” in his vocation. Ahead of a likely 2018 release, check out a teaser image from the director below.

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