Johnny Flynn is perhaps best known as Dylan, the perpetually heart-sad lead of the terrific Netflix series “Lovesick.” However, in the upcoming “Beast,” the actor trades in his floppy haired melancholic woes for an eerie mystery set on the isle of Jersey, just off the coast of England.
Written and directed by Michael Pearce, and co-starring Jessie Buckley, the story follows the romance that blooms between enigmatic stranger Pascal, and the socially and emotionally repressed Moll. However, their relationship comes under pressure when Pascal is connected to a string of brutal murders in the area. Here’s the official synopsis:
Moll (Jessie Buckley, TABOO, WAR AND PEACE) is 27 and still living at home, stifled by the small island community around her and too beholden to her family to break away. When she meets Pascal, a free-spirited stranger, a whole new world opens up to her and she begins to feel alive for the first time, falling madly in love. Finally breaking free from her family, Moll moves in with Pascal (Johnny Flynn, CLOUDS OF SILS MARIA, LOVESICK) to start a new life. But when he is arrested as the key suspect in a series of brutal murders, she is left isolated and afraid.
Choosing to stand with him against the suspicions of the community, Moll finds herself forced to make choices that will impact her life forever.
“Beast” opens in the U.K. on April 27th and in the U.S. on May 11th.