"The Lobster" Starts Boiling

John C. Reilly, Ashley Jensen, Michael Smiley and Jessica Barden are set to join director Yorgos Lanthimos' first English language film "The Lobster" says THR.

 Set in the near future, the story sees single people are arrested and obliged to find a mate within 45 days of their incarceration in a hotel. If they fail to do so, they are transformed into an animal and released into the wild.

 Colin Farrell Rachel Weisz Ben Whishaw, Léa Seydoux, Olivia Colman, Ariane Labed and Aggeliki Papoulia also star

Lanthimos, Lee Magiday, Ed Guiney and Ceci Dempsey will produce.

Production is now underway in Ireland.