Neon Takes North American Rights To Arthur Harari’s ‘The Unknown’ Starring Léa Seydoux
Léa Seydoux. Photo by Cindy Ord/Getty Images.
Neon has picked up North American rights to The Unknown, the next feature from Anatomy of a Fall writer Arthur Harari.
Léa Seydoux is set to star in the film, which Neon has said it will release in US and Canadian theaters in 2026. Harari also serves as director on the pic, which will be produced by bathysphere, with Pathé co-producing and selling the film internationally in Cannes.
The deal was negotiated by Neon’s President of Acquisitions & Production Jeff Deutchman with producer Nicolas Anthomé on behalf of the filmmakers and marks Neon’s second collaboration with Harari following last year’s Anatomy of a Fall, which Neon acquired out of Cannes in 2023.
Neon’s slate currently includes Steven Soderbergh’s Presence, which made its world premiere in Sundance, where Neon picked up the worldwide rights, Keeper from Osgood Perkins, starring Tatiana Maslany and Rossif Sutherland, and They Follow, the sequel to the cult classic It Follows from visionary David Robert Mitchell, starring Maika Monroe.
This year in Cannes, Neon debuts Anora, the latest film from Sean Baker (The Florida Project, Red Rocket), in competition. The distributor also recently scooped the North American rights to Julia Ducournau’s Alpha, whom they previously collaborated with on the Palme d’Or winner Titane.