Hugh is slated to appear in a new film, an independent thriller, called The Last Passenger. More details here and at Variety.

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LONDON — U.K. shingle NDF Intl. has announced a diverse slate of pics on offer for pre-sales at Cannes, including Brit train thriller “Last Passenger.”

The pic, starring Hugh Dancy and backed by the U.K. Film Council, marks the debut feature for director Omid Nooshin. Story follows an overworked doctor trapped on a runaway train leaving London during the Christmas holidays and is set to shoot in September.

Script — which made the Brit List, a list of the most liked and recommended unproduced scripts in the U.K. and Ireland — was penned by Nooshin and Andy Love. The $5.4 million (£3.5 million) pic has sparked interest from Peter Jackson and Richard Taylor’s New Zealand-based special effects co Weta Workshop, who have agreed to work on the pic’s SFX.

NDF’s Zack Winfield and Ado Yoshizaki will produce and CEO Michiyo Yoshizaki (“The Crying Game”) will exec produce with Future Films.

Thanks to Mamie Gummer Online for the heads-up on this. Looks like Coach will be a straight-to-DVD release. Don’t know about an international release yet, but you can pre-order the DVD now for a June 8th drop date through Amazon. What a waste of good talent.

(New York Times) The Off Broadway production of “The Pride,” about a fraught love triangle in 1958 and a stormy gay relationship in the present day, will extend for an additional week to March 28 because of audience demand, the producers announced on Wednesday.

Starring Hugh Dancy and Ben Whishaw and directed by Joe Mantello, “The Pride” opened on Tuesday to favorable-to-mixed reviews, and the producers said that the run is already 85 percent sold out. Box office business for “The Pride” on Wednesday broke the single-day ticket sale record for MCC Theater, the producer of the show.

(Playbill) After a one-day delay, MCC Theater launches the American premiere of Alexi Kaye Campbell’s The Pride, starting Off-Broadway previews Jan. 28 at the Lucille Lortel Theatre.

Previously scheduled to start Jan. 27, the MCC canceled its first preview “due to wardrobe issues.” Costumes for the work, which is set in 1958 and the present, were not ready.

Joe Mantello (Glengarry Glen Ross, Take Me Out) directs the production that is still slated to open Feb. 16 for a run through March 10.

Hugh Dancy (Journey’s End, “Adam”) stars with Adam James (“Last Chance Harvey”), Andrea Risenborough (Ivanov – Donmar Warehouse) and Ben Whishaw (“Bright Star,” “Brideshead Revisited”).

“Oliver, Philip and Sylvia are caught in a kind of erotic time warp,” according to MCC. “Their complex love triangle, replete with conflicting loyalties and passions, jumps from 1958 to the present and back in a maelstrom of fantasy, repression and rebellion in this innovative new drama.” The play premiered in London at the Royal Court in 2008.

The Off-Broadway run of The Pride features the design team of David Zinn (scenic), Mattie Ullrich (costume), Paul Gallo (lighting) and Jill DuBoff (sound).

Tickets to The Pride at the Lortel Theatre (121 Christopher Street) are available by calling (212) 279-4200. For more information, visit mcctheater.org.