Apple Original Films has won the bidding war for the new feature project from Megan Park, the acclaimed Canadian director behind the highly regarded comedy. My old ass.
LuckyChap, the company run by Margot Robbie, Tom Ackerley, Josie McNamara, and Milan Popelka, is attached to produce the untitled film in association with FilmNation.
Apple has overtaken Warner Bros. , Sony and Universal, as well as Amazon and Netflix in the project formerly known as Die Alive. Park wrote and is attached directly. She will also executive produce.
While sources say that Apple has not commented on the registration lines Hollywood Reporter The project is described as having Adam Sandler tunes Big Daddy And Julia Roberts Step mom. The story is said to center around a woman who discovers that her older boyfriend has a wife and children when they unexpectedly appear on her doorstep. Despite the situation that puts the two women at odds with each other, the heroine finds herself thrust into the role of caring for rude children.
This new feature is Park’s third collaboration with LuckyChap, Next My old ass And the Amazon series Sterling pointwhich she created and directed and is currently in post-production. She also presented and produced the series alongside Josh Schwartz and Stephanie Savage okay and gossip girl Fame.
In the past several years, Park has emerged as an exciting new voice in Hollywood’s next generation of up-and-coming filmmakers. This is despite being a veteran film and television actress, having been an actress in her teens and twenties. (She is one of the stars The Secret Life of an American Teenagerthe ABC Family drama that ran from 2008 to 2013, for example.)
Her directorial debut was an auspicious one. School shooting drama starring Jenna Ortega, Repercussions It premiered at the 2021 edition of SXSW, where it won the Grand Jury Prize and Audience Award, and later aired on HBO.
I followed that up with My old assa coming-of-age comedy featuring a mushroom-inspired journey to meet one’s elder self that starred Aubrey Plaza and Macy Stella. After premiering at Sundance, the film was quickly acquired by Amazon MGM Studios and released in theaters before its debut on Prime Video. It was nominated for awards from the DGA, WGA, Critics’ Choice Award for Best Comedy, and an Independent Spirit Award for Best Screenplay.
Park is repped by CAA, TFC Management, and Johnson Shapiro.
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