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September 6th, 2015

The Gift - Joel Edgerton Poster

The Gift

GORDO
You are done with the past, but the past is not done with you



STX Entertainment and Blumhouse Productions’ The Gift is a heart-stopping,
thought-provoking psychological thriller from producers Jason Blum and Rebecca
Yeldham and actor, writer, producer and first-time director Joel Edgerton (The Great
Gatsby, Zero Dark Thirty, Warrior
), that asks the question: What if someone you
wronged long ago reemerged in your life through a chance encounter?

Simon (Jason Bateman) and Robyn (Rebecca Hall) are a young married couple whose life is going just as planned until a chance encounter with an acquaintance from Simon’s high school sends their world into a harrowing tailspin. Simon doesn’t recognize Gordo (Joel Edgerton) at first, but after a series of uninvited encounters andmysterious gifts prove troubling, a horrifying secret from the past is uncovered after more than 20 years. As Robyn learns the unsettling truth about what happened between Simon and Gordo, she starts to question: how well do we really know the people closest to us, and are past bygones ever really bygones?

Recognized for his extensive career in front of the camera, Edgerton, in fact,
began his career as a filmmaker in Australia, forming the Film Collective Blue Tongue Films in 1996 alongside other like-minded creatives. Together the team (which includes
directors David Michôd and Nash Edgerton) has written, directed, and produced a
number of prestiges titles including Animal Kingdom, The Square, Wish You Were Here, Hesher, and The Rover. With the collaborative, Joel wrote and directed a few of the
teams short films, as well as penning The Square, prior to writing the Matthew Saville
directed feature film Felony, which he also starred in and produced.

The Gift is Edgerton’s feature directorial debut. With long time aspirations to
direct, it was important for him to develop a project for his debut that was strongly
character driven and attractive to a strong smart cast and rooted in meaty ideas and
themes. A long-time fan of intelligent genre films, the intricate plot was also reminiscent
of the great performance-based thrillers and suspense films that had been a staple of his adolescence.

With several other writing projects in development in the United States,
Edgerton’s filmmaking career continues to grow.

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