A24 has landed the Oscar-nominated author/director Jesse Eisenberg’s Next Untitled Comedy Project, announced the studio Tuesday.
Together with Eisenberg, Julianne Moore, Paul Giamatti, Halle Bailey, Havana Rose Liu and Bernadette Peters. In addition, Bonnie Milligan, Colton Ryan, Lilli Cooper and Maulik Pancholy also go with the role. Production began in April.
The film follows a shy woman who is unexpectedly thrown into a musical production in community theater and goes to extremes when she loses herself in the role.
Eisenberg wrote the original music and the lyrics to the film’s musical, with music leader Steven Gizicki (“A Complete Unknown”, “La La Land”) and executive music producer Bill Sherman (“In the Heights”), choreography by Andy Blankenbuehler (“Hamilton”) and film by Drew Daniels (“
Fruit Tree’s Emma Stone, Dave McCary and Ali Herting will produce with subject studios that serve as executive producers.
This movie Retams Fruit Tree and Subject Studies with Eisenberg, as the companies were behind his critically acclaimed film “A Real Pain”, which got Kieran Culkin an Oscar for best actors and Eisenberg a nomination for best original script.
This project continues Eisenberg’s partnership with Fruit Tree and A24, after his direction debut “When you are ready to save the world”, as well as Fruit Tree and A24’s previous collaborations on “I Saw TV Glow” and “The Curse.”
Subject Studios also collaborates with A24 on several upcoming films, including co-financing David Lowerory’s epic pop melodrama “Mother Mary”, with Anne Hathaway and Michaela Coel; And “peaked”, a new comedy written by Molly Gordon and Allie Levitan, which Gordon will direct and start.
Caa Media Finance, WME Independent, Johnson Shapiro Slewett & Kole and Felker Toczek Suddleson McGinnis Ryan LLP negotiated the deal.
