Director Lynne Ramsay’s Die, My Love has added Nick Nolte and Sissy Spacek to an already eye-catching cast, including Jennifer Lawrence, Robert Pattison and LaKeith Stanfield.
It’s been seven years since Lynne Ramsay (pictured) last made a feature, and as a filmmaker who;s never been what you might call prolific, we’re glad we won’t be waiting too much longer for her latest project to materialise. Called Die, My Love, the film is already in production (filming got underway in Calgary, Canada in August) and is about “a woman driven to the brink of insanity by marriage and motherhood.”
It’s based on the novel of the same name by Ariana Harwicz and will be produced by Martin Scorsese, who you may have heard of. Die, My Love marks Ramsay’s her first film since 2017, that one being the excellent You Were Never Really Here starring Joaquin Phoenix.
The cast for the production continues to round out, and is looking like it could be one for the ages. We’ve already got three terrific actors in the ensemble, with Jennifer Lawrence, Robert Pattison and LaKeith Stanfield having been previously announced. Now, according to Deadline, Sissy Spacek and Nick Nolte will both be joining the cast too. Both actors bring some serious kudos to a project that looks increasingly exciting.
Spacek has done her own version of a ‘troubled young woman’ – her performance in 1977’s Carrie being one of her most celebrated. In more recent times, she’s plays the matriarch role exceptionally well and we wonder if that’s how she’ll be used here. Likewise, Nolte needs no introduction, and both he and Spacek have collaborated before on Affliction, the 1997 crime drama written and directed by Paul Schrader.
Die, My Love is one of several projects that Ramsay has been trying to get up and running in recent years. There was an adaptation of the Margaret Atwood novel, Stone Mattress, which had Julianne Moore and Sandra Oh attached in 2022. Then there was the drama Polaris, which was an original script written by Ramsay and would have reunited Ramsay with Phoenix for another project.
We’re hoping that we’ll get to see this film some time in 2025, and it’s already high on the list of our most-anticipated films of next year. When we do hear details regarding a release window, you can be sure we’ll let you know.
