Aimee Lou Wood (Sex Education, White Lotus) will star opposite Angelina Jolie in Anxious People, the Marc Forster film adaptation of Fredrik Backman's novel. Deadline reported that the film was being sold at Cannes for international distribution by Black Bear and for domestic distribution by WME Independent.
The novel has been adapted for the screen by Oscar-nominated screenwriter David Magee (A Man Called Otto, Life of Pi, Finding Neverland). The project reunites some of the key players behind the 2022 movie adaptation of Backman's A Man Called Otto, with Hope Studios' Fredrik Wikström Nicastro and Renée Wolfe of 2DUX2 producing and director Forster, Magee, and Neda Backman exec producing.