Jonathan Rhys Meyers To Star In Vampire Romance ‘Pretty Kill Machine’; Quantify Launches Sales For AFM

EXCLUSIVE: Jonathan Rhys Meyers, who a decade ago starred as Dracula for NBC and Sky, is returning to the genre for new movie Pretty Kill Machine.

Quantify, the international sales and distribution company formed by Nu Boyana Studios, Dark Matter Studios, Government Island and Film Forge Media, is launching worldwide sales ahead of the AFM.

The film is being adapted and directed by Matthew Wilder (Your Name Here). Pic is being produced by David Hillary (Bill & Ted Face the Music) and Yariv Lerner (The Expendables), who also serves as CEO of Nu Boyana Studios, one of Quantify’s founding partners.

Set in and around Joshua Tree, California, the film “follows Vee, a supernatural being who has walked the earth since before recorded history. A vampire “in the vulgate,” she prefers to think of herself as simply “a day drinker” – drifting between an elegant hotel bar and a mirrored, glass-walled lair in the desert, feeding on blood and, more dangerously, on souls. Her centuries-long existence is thrown into crisis when she falls in love for the first time, a development that threatens to end her eternal reign for good.”

The Tudors and Vikings star Rhys Meyers will play the man Vee falls in love with.

“We’re happy to be taking on Pretty Kill Machine,” said Yariv Lerner at Quantify. “Matthew has built a genuinely sensuous, dangerous world, and with Jonathan anchoring it at the center, we think buyers are going to respond in a big way. We can’t wait to introduce Vee to the market at AFM.”