100 Nights of Hero to Debut at Venice Critics Weeks

A new fantasy romance is taking shape from Isabel Greenbergs’ graphic novel The One Hundred Nights of Hero, with Julia Jackman steering 100 Nights of Hero as her second feature. The film will have its world premiere on September 6 at the Venice Film Festival’s Critics Weeks section, closing night the slot, before a domestic release on December 5. North American rights are held by The Independent Film Company, and a teaser trailer released online offers a first look at a period-fantasy world built around a central act of storytelling and subversive love.

The project reimagines the medieval milieu in which a neglectful husband wagers with a friend that he can seduce his wife within 100 nights, a plot that Greenbergs’ book uses to explore the power of female storytelling. In Jackman’s adaptation, Cherry Monroe is played by Maika Monroe and Hero by Emma Corrin, the latter a sharp-witted maid whose own narrative talents become a protective countermeasure against the wager’s peril. The couple’s dynamic with Manfred, the seductive visitor played by Nicholas Galitzine, drives a tale that intertwines romance, danger, and a chorus of stories meant to outwit a dangerous scheme.