Bleecker Street and Participant Media have landed the domestic distribution rights to Andy Serkis‘ “Breathe,” starring Andrew Garfield and Claire Foy.
The deal was packaged out of the Toronto International Film Festival. Garfield will portray real-life polio survivor Robin Cavendish, with Foy (“Wolf Hall”) to star as his wife, Diana.
Serkis, the prolific motion-capture actor who is directing Warner Bros.’ upcoming take on “The Jungle Book,” will direct from a script by “Gladiator” writer William Nicholson. Three-time Academy Award winner Robert Richardson will serve as cinematographer.
Cavendish, a zesty and adventurous man, is struck with polio but he and his wife “refuse to be imprisoned by suffering, traveling the world and transforming the lives of others with their humor, courage and lust for life,” according to a synopsis.