Amanda Seyfried to Star in Movie "Seven Veils"

American actress Amanda Seyfried has signed on to star in Canadian filmmaker Atom Egoyan’s latest movie “Seven Veils”.

Seyfried plays Jeanine, an earnest theater director who’s been given the daunting task of remounting her former mentor’s most famous work, the opera “Salome”.

She is haunted by dark memories from her past and allows her repressed trauma to color the present as she re-enters the opera world after many years.

The movie is a Rhombus Media and Ego Film Arts production, produced with the participation of Telefilm Canada, in association with Cinetic Media, IPR.VC, XYZ Films, and the Canadian Opera Company.

Executive producers include XYZ’s Aram Tertzakian, Nate Bolotin, Maxime Cottray, and Nick Spicer,  John Sloss of Cinetic Media, and Noah Segal and Adrian Love of Elevation Pictures.

XYZ Films co-financed “Seven Veils” and will introduce the project to buyers in Berlin. Elevation Pictures will distribute the movie in Canada.

“Seven Veils” is written and directed by Egoyan, who also produces the movie alongside Niv Fichman, Simone Urdl, Fraser Ash, and Kevin Krikst.

The movie marks the second collaboration between Seyfried and Egoyan after working together on the 2009 movie “Chloe” in which she starred opposite Julianne Moore and Liam Neeson.

“I first produced ‘Salome’ for the Canadian Opera Company almost 30 years ago and have been haunted by its themes. This is a project I’ve been dreaming about for years and it’s such a thrill to be reunited with Amanda after the amazing experience we had together making ‘Chloe.’” Egoyan said in a statement.

Principal photography is set to begin filming in Toronto next week.