30/01/2013 - New company’s first project reunites The King’s Speech team

Cascade, a new British film and television finance company, has announced its first feature film development investment, The Lady Who Went Too Far. The film reunites two talents behind the BAFTA and Oscar-winning The King’s Speech [+see also:
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The Lady Who Went Too Far tells the true story of the pioneering Lady Hester Stanhope, who spurned London society in the early 1800s to travel across the Mediterranean and into the Middle East, where she played a major role in stymieing Napoleon’s advances towards India.

Cascade CEO Mark Fisher said, “Working with Gareth and David to bring this enthralling story to screen is the best opening scene for Cascade as a company. To work with such talented and creative people on a project that has such international commercial appeal is a dream for us and fits perfectly with our ambitions to build Cascade as a company that can help finance and package films from established filmmakers, as well as the emerging talent that we are supporting in other ways.”

The Lady Who Went Too Far, which will go into production later this year, is produced by Bedlam Films, and supported by Cascade and the BFI Film Fund, British Film Company, HW Buffalo and RPTVA.