Drea de Matteo Joins Cast Of DARK PLACES

Emmy Award winning and Golden Globe nominee Drea de Matteo (THE SOPRANOS, SONS OF ANARCHY) has joined the all-star cast of drama DARK PLACES, it was announced today by co-financiers and co-producers Exclusive Media.

Currently shooting on location in Shreveport, Louisiana, DARK PLACES is the film adaptation of Gillian Flynn’s best-selling novel and stars Oscar winning actress Charlize Theron (SNOW WHITE AND THE HUNTSMEN, PROMETHEUS, MONSTER), Nicholas Hoult (ABOUT A BOY, X-MEN: FIRST CLASS, JACK THE GIANT SLAYER ), Chloë Grace Moretz (upcoming CARRIE, HUGO, KICK-ASS), Emmy Award nominated actress Christina Hendricks (MAD MEN, DRIVE), Corey Stoll (MIDNIGHT IN PARIS, HOUSE OF CARDS), and Tye Sheridan (upcoming JOE, MUD, TREE OF LIFE).

DARK PLACES tells the story of Libby Day (Theron), a woman who, at the age of 7, survives the massacre of her family and testifies against her brother as the murderer. Twenty-five years later, a group obsessed with solving notorious crimes confronts her with questions about the horrific event. Told in a series of flashbacks from the points of view of Libby’s mother, Patty, and her brother, Ben, Libby is forced to revisit that fateful day and begins to question what exactly she saw – or didn’t see – the night of the tragedy.

Drea de Matteo, who will play Krissi Cates, is best known for playing Adriana in HBO’s five time Golden Globe winning TV series THE SOPRANOS, earning her a Golden Globe Nomination and winning her an Emmy Award for Best Supporting Actress. Matteo’s other TV credits include FRIENDS’ spinoff JOEY opposite Matt LeBlanc, ABC’s Golden Globe winning DESPERATE HOUSEWIVES and Golden Globe winning SONS OF ANARCHY. Her film credits include Allen Hughes’ segment in NEW YORK, I LOVE YOU opposite Bradley Cooper and the upcoming FREE RIDE which stars Oscar winning actress Anna Paquin and will be released by Phase 4 Films later in 2013.

“In the hands of such an accomplished team of creative filmmakers, the cast for DARK PLACES is shaping up to be a tour de force line up of exceptional performers who will bring a wealth of appeal to an already distinguished project. We could not be happier,” said the film’s producers Nigel Sinclair and Guy East.

Written and directed by Gilles Paquet-Brenner (SARAH’S KEY), DARK PLACES is co-financed by Exclusive Media and Cuatro Plus Films. Exclusive Media is producing with Stephane Marsil of Hugo Films, Charlize Theron’s Denver and Delilah Productions partners Beth Kono and AJ Dix; and Mandalay’s Cathy Schulman and Matt Rhodes. Exclusive Media’s Matt Jackson will produce, with the company’s Guy East, Nigel Sinclair, Tobin Armbrust and Alex Brunner Executive Producing. Peter Safran will also serve as an Executive Producer.

The novel Dark Places was published in 2009 and was listed on The New York Times Best Seller List for more than 25 weeks. The book was also shortlisted for the Crime Writers’ Association Ian Fleming Steel Dagger Award and won the Dark Scribe Magazine Black Quill Award for Dark Genre Novel of the Year. Gillian Flynn is one of today’s leading suspense writers with her current novel, Gone Girl, spending eight weeks at No. 1 on the hardcover fiction best-seller list of The New York Times. Gone Girl has sold more than two million copies in print and digital formats