Genre vet (at this point) Radha Mitchell is set to star in Sacrifice alongside Rupert Graves and Colm Meaney. Peter Dowling will write and direct. He also scripted Flightplan, with Jodie Foster, and directed the horror film Stag Night.
Sacrifice is an adaptation of the SJ Bolton-penned novel of the same name. Here's a publisher's synopsis:
In this masterful debut that starts off as a mystery and becomes much more, Tora Hamilton is an outsider at her new home on the rocky, windswept Shetland Islands, a hundred miles from the northeastern tip of Scotland. Though her husband grew up here, it’s the first time he’s been back in twenty years. Digging in the peat on their new property, Tora unearths a human body, at first glance a centuries-old bog body, interesting but not uncommon. But realizing that the body is in fact much newer, that the woman’s heart has been cut out, and that she was killed within a few days of bearing a child, Tora, herself an obstetrician, becomes obsessed with finding out what happened to her—even when the police, her colleagues, and eventually her husband warn her against getting involved.
Mitchell has starred in Pitch Black, The Crazies, Rogue, the Silent Hill films as well as last year's Evidence and The Frozen Ground.
[Source: Screen Daily]
