{"id":2134782,"date":"2025-11-04T15:41:02","date_gmt":"2025-11-04T15:41:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/?p=2134782"},"modified":"2025-11-04T15:41:02","modified_gmt":"2025-11-04T15:41:02","slug":"shailene-woodley-to-star-in-marathon-thriller-ultra-for-mister-smith-entertainment-news","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/shailene-woodley-to-star-in-marathon-thriller-ultra-for-mister-smith-entertainment-news\/","title":{"rendered":"Shailene Woodley to star in marathon thriller \u2018Ultra\u2019 for Mister Smith Entertainment | News"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<div class=\"inline_image inline_image_left image_size_med\" data-attachment=\"1463905\" data-sequence=\"1\">\n<p class=\"picture\"><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><strong>The UK\u2019s Mister Smith Entertainment is launching international sales at the upcoming American Film Market (AFM) on Victoria Negri\u2019s upcoming ultramarathon-set psychological thriller <em>Ultra<\/em>, starring Shailene Woodley.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>WME Independent is handling US sales on the project.<\/p>\n<p>The film is being produced by Allison Rose Carter and Jon Read for US outfit Savage Rose Films, which co-produced\u00a0<em>Everything Everywhere All At Once,<\/em>\u00a0and Iris Torres. The executive producers are Andrew Kortschak and Lisa Ciuffetti for End and Toby Halbrooks for Sailor Bear.<\/p>\n<p>Woodley will play Eve, a woman who\u00a0enters the most intense athletic endeavour on the planet: the Badwater 135 Ultramarathon, a 135-mile race through Death Valley, where temperatures reach 54\u00b0C, following the tragic death of her twin sister.\u00a0As she takes on the unforgiving elements and intense physical and psychological strain of the race, Eve finds herself pursued by an unknown runner in white, unable to outrun the ominous presence.<\/p>\n<p><em>Ultra\u00a0<\/em>will see\u00a0US filmmaker Negri draw from her personal experience as a long-distance runner and as the director of ultramarathon documentary short\u00a0<em>Personal Best.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>\u201cMy father was a distance runner, left paralysed by a stroke,\u201d said Negri. \u201cRunning, the thing that gave him life, was taken from him. He suffered, and finally succumbed. While finding my emotional footing, I grew to become an ultrarunner, since completing two 100-mile races, numerous 50 milers and many marathons\u2026 I wrote <em>Ultra<\/em> from this intense personal journey.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Negri made her feature debut with 2017\u2019s <em>Gold Star,<\/em> Robert Vaughn\u2019s final on-screen performance.\u00a0<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><script>\n!function(f,b,e,v,n,t,s)\n{if(f.fbq)return;n=f.fbq=function(){n.callMethod?\nn.callMethod.apply(n,arguments):n.queue.push(arguments)};\nif(!f._fbq)f._fbq=n;n.push=n;n.loaded=!0;n.version='2.0';\nn.queue=[];t=b.createElement(e);t.async=!0;\nt.src=v;s=b.getElementsByTagName(e)[0];\ns.parentNode.insertBefore(t,s)}(window, document,'script',\n'https:\/\/connect.facebook.net\/en_US\/fbevents.js');\nfbq('init', '1787080818148630');\nfbq('track', 'PageView');\n<\/script><script>\n!function(f,b,e,v,n,t,s)\n{if(f.fbq)return;n=f.fbq=function(){n.callMethod?\nn.callMethod.apply(n,arguments):n.queue.push(arguments)};\nif(!f._fbq)f._fbq=n;n.push=n;n.loaded=!0;n.version='2.0';\nn.queue=[];t=b.createElement(e);t.async=!0;\nt.src=v;s=b.getElementsByTagName(e)[0];\ns.parentNode.insertBefore(t,s)}(window, document,'script',\n'https:\/\/connect.facebook.net\/en_US\/fbevents.js');\nfbq('init', '400707963055585');\nfbq('track', 'PageView');\n<\/script><\/p>\n<p><em> \u2018 The preceding article may include information circulated by third parties \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n<p><em> \u2018 Some details of this article were extracted from the following source www.screendaily.com \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The UK\u2019s Mister Smith Entertainment is launching international sales at the upcoming American Film Market (AFM) on Victoria Negri\u2019s upcoming ultramarathon-set psychological thriller Ultra, starring Shailene Woodley. 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