EXCLUSIVE: UK sales outfit boards Ellen Page [pictured], Evan Rachel Wood apocalyptic drama due to shoot April.

Ahead of the EFM, Celsius Entertainment has boarded sales on writer-director Patricia Rozema’s (Mansfield Park) apocalyptic/eco drama Into The Forest, set to star Ellen Page and Evan Rachel Wood.

Page also produces the Canadian feature, based on Jean Hegland’s novel of the same name, which begins filming this coming April on Vancouver Island.

Into The Forest recounts the story of two sisters, played by Page and Wood, struggling to survive after the collapse of society in the not too distant future.

Producers are Page and Karine Martin, executive producers are Sriram Das, Kelly Bush Novak and Haroon Saleem. Mediabiz will co-finance.

Page recently wrapped on the seventh installation of the X-Men franchise, X-Men: Days of Future Past, and is attached to Fox’s Queen and Country. Wood recently finished filming Andrew Fleming’s Barefoot.

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