EXCLUSIVE : Oscar and Olivier winner Mark Rylance ( Bridge of Spies ) is set to star in and make his feature directorial debut with Nice Fish , alongside five-time Oscar nominee Michelle Williams ( Brokeback Mountain ), Jim Lichtscheidl ( A Serious Man ), and Isabella LaBlanc ( True Detective: Night Country ). Tamara Birkemoe, CEO of Palisades Park Pictures, is launching international sales on the project at the upcoming Cannes Film Market. CAA Media Finance will represent North American rights. Nice Fish first originated as a successful stage play, later earning an Olivier Award nomination. The production was largely a collaboration between Rylance and prose poet Louis Jenkins, who wrote more than 600 prose poems during his lifetime, many of which were adapted into the film’s screenplay, written by Rylance and Lichtscheidl. The synopsis reads: “Hoping to rekindle an old friendship, childhood buddies Ron and Erik set out for a day’s ice-fishing, on the last day of the ice-fishing season.…