EXIT WEST

EXIT WEST

Drama, Film, Romantic, Novel, Priority OD, Wed Talent Grid
Studio: NETFLIX, AGBO

Prod Co: Higher Ground Productions
Dates: TBD
Location: TBD
Budget: Unknown

Writer (Current): JESSICA GOLDBERG
Source Material By: Mohsin Hamid
Producer: Tonia Davis, Barack Obama, Joe Russo, Anthony Russo
Director: Yann Demange [Negotiation]

Cast: Talent: Riz Ahmed [SAEED AZEEZ: Attached]

Logline: Tone of THE ENGLISH PATIENT. In a country teetering on the brink of civil war, two young people meet-sensual, fiercely independent Nadia and gentle, restrained Saeed. They embark on a furtive love affair, and are soon cloistered in a premature intimacy by the unrest roiling their city. When it explodes, turning familiar streets into a patchwork of checkpoints and bomb blasts,
they begin to hear whispers about doors-doors that can whisk people far away, if perilously and for a price. As the violence escalates, Nadia and Saeed decide that they no longer have a choice. Leaving their homeland and their old lives behind, they find a door and step through. . . . Exit West follows these remarkable characters as they emerge into an alien and uncertain future, struggling to hold on to each other, to their past, to the very sense of who they are. Profoundly intimate and powerfully inventive, it tells an unforgettable story of love, loyalty, and courage that is both completely of our time and for all time.

Roles:

[NADIA DHANIAL]
Lead Female (20 - 29) Middle Eastern
An attractive college student, she falls in love with Saeed and she wants to marry him. But he decides to stay behind in England, and she winds up going to the United States at the end to start over there.

[SAEED AZEEZ]
Lead Male (20 - 29) Middle Eastern
Handsome college student with carefully maintained stubble. He and NADIA meet and fall in love - as they also struggle to survive in the chaotic, violent world. Saeed ultimately stays in England to help rebuild a new community/city.
Attached Riz Ahmed

[MARY]
Supporting Female (20 - 29)
Way too pretty to be working as a maid, she has tattoos and becomes friends with Nadia and with BEATRIZ. Mary and Nadia are still friends at the end.

[BEATRIZ]
Supporting Female (20 - 29) Hispanic / Latino
[From El Salvador] She also works as a hotel maid, along with Mary and Nadia.

[SAEED'S FATHER]
Supporting Male (45 - 49) Middle Eastern
The father of Saeed, he is devastated when his own wife is murdered. He refuses to leave his home when Saeed and Nadia flee.

[SAEED'S MOTHER]
Supporting Female (45 - 49) Middle Eastern
The mother of Saeed, she winds up getting murdered.

[PREACHER]
Supporting Male (40 - 49) Middle Eastern
He is a preacher with the Muslim Center for the Future. He and his family become close to Saeed

[ANDALEE]
Supporting Female (19) Middle Eastern
The children of the Preacher.

[DAUDI]
Supporting Male (15) Middle Eastern
The children of the Preacher.

[NAJWA]
Supporting Female (12) Middle Eastern

[TARIQ]
Cameo Male (20 - 29) Middle Eastern
Muscular, with a mop of unruly hair. He dated Nadia in the past and winds up killed now.