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EXCLUSIVE: Miramax in a competitive bid has snapped up the rights to Australian author Amy Taylor’s upcoming second novel Ruins with Oscar nominees Vanessa Kirby and Sebastian Stan attached to headline and produce. The actress will produce through her company Aluna Entertainment.

Miramax’s new President of Film Group Alexandra Loewy shepherded the deal.

Ruins follows a couple whose affair with a young Greek woman over the course of a summer in Athens threatens to crack their relationship open in a story about privilege and power, desire and intimacy. The Dial Press is publishing Ruins in the U.S. on Aug. 12 and Allen & Unwin will publish in Australia and New Zealand on July 1. There is currently an ongoing negotiation or UK publishing rights. Taylor’s first hit novel was Search History in 2023. The author is represented by CAA and Pippa Masson at Curtis Brown Australia.

Kirby and Stan are also producing with Scott Free and Linden. CAA reps Scott Free.

Stan recently received an Academy Award nomination as well as Golden Globe and BAFTA nominations for his role as a young Donald Trump in The Apprentice. He won a Golden Globe Award for his performance in A24’s A Different Man. He earned an Emmy, SAG and Golden Globe nomination for his role in the Hulu limited series Pam and Tommy. Upcoming he will star in Cristian Munju’s next feature film Fjord for Neon and he will next begin production on Justin Kurzel’s Burning Rainbow Farm, which he will star in opposite Leo Woodall. Stan can currently be seen reprising his role of Bucky Barnes in Marvel’s THunderbolts* and he’s currently filming Avengers: Doomsday. The actor is repped by CAA, Brookside Artist Management, and Sloane Offer.

Volpi Cup and BAFTA Award winner and Oscar, Golden Globe, Emmy and Critics Choice nominee Kirby will next star as Sue Storm (The Invisible Woman) in Marvel’s The Fantastic Four: First Steps which will be released globally on July 25. She too is currently filming Avengers: Doomsday. This summer she can be seen in Vertical’s Ron Howard’s directed period thriller Eden. Also on the horizon is Netflix’s Night Always Comes, which she also produced through her company Aluna Entertainment. She earned critical acclaim for her performance in Kornél Mundruczó’s Pieces of a Woman for which she was nominated for an Academy Award. Other credits across film and television include the Mission: Impossible franchise, Ridley Scott’s Napoleon, The Crown series, The World to Come, and Fast & Furious Presents: Hobbs & Shaw. Kirby’s Aluna Entertainment has a multi-year first-look deal with Netflix, and serves as a Global Ambassador for War Child. The actress is repped by CAA, Hamilton Hodell in the UK, Linden Entertainment and Johnson Shapiro Slewett & Kole.