Deadline has reported that star Keira Knightley has signed on for the leading role in the forthcoming sci-fi thriller titled Conception. Knightley will star as a woman working under an authoritarian government who controls its citizens’ parenting. Camille Griffin is set to helm the movie, and both Griffin and Knightley previously worked together in 2021’s dark comedy Silent Night.
“The film is set in the not-too-distant future of Britain, where the government has taken authoritarian rule over parenting,” reads the synopsis. “It follows Rita (Knightley), a loyal civil servant and believer in the unforgiving system she upholds, until unexpected events endanger her own parental status, rendering her victim to the same laws she so readily inflicted on others.”
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