Fox Searchlight Buys the Rights to ‘Beasts of the Southern Wild’

By Mike Lee • January 24, 2012 • 2 Comments

Sundance isn’t home to just a collection of films, it is also a place where film distributors acquire the rights to distribute the movie itself. Fox Searchlight Pictures was among the first of the big name studios to make a purchase this year starting off with the John Hawkes & Helen Hunt film, The Surrogate. There is already buzz surrounding the film and it is circling around John Hawkes.

Today the studio has also acquired the rights to distribute Beasts of the Southern Wild. According to those who screened the movie at the event, the language used in the film is nothing short of “remarkable, beautiful, moving, and astonishing.” The film tells the story of what its like for a young girl to think about the end of the universe. Thanks to Badass Digest for the quote.

While reporting on the Searchlight buy, THR summed up Beasts as follows:

Beasts centers on Hushpuppy, a six-year-old girl who lives with her tough-love father at the edge of the water on the outside of protective levees in southernmost Louisiana. As he becomes sick and tries to prepare her for the end of the universe, mildly apocalyptic events cause the seas to rise, animals and trees to begin dying and giant, prehistoric creatures to thaw from the ice caps. As they struggle to survive with a handful of their neighbors who also refuse to leave their water-drenched home (called the Bathtub), Hushpuppy is forced to comprehend her place in the universe.

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