EXCLUSIVE: Michael Keaton’s “modern comedy” Goodrich is launching gross sales on the EFM for Black Bear International, we will reveal.
Fresh off Golden Globe, Emmy, Critics Choice and SAG wins for Hulu sequence Dopesick, Goodrich is ready to return Oscar nominee Keaton to his extra comedic roots.
Set in modern LA in the course of the holidays, the movie tells the story of artwork vendor Andy Goodrich (Keaton), a person whose life is upended when his youthful second spouse leaves him and enters a 90-day rehab program whereas additionally threatening divorce. Goodrich takes cost of their nine-year-old twins, thrusting him into the world of contemporary parenthood for which he’s deeply unprepared. With his profession dropping by the wayside, he leans on his grown and pregnant daughter Grace for help, and in the end evolves into the daddy Grace by no means had.
First revealed by Deadline as a possible studio proposition 4 years in the past, Hallie Meyers-Shyer (Home Again) continues to be aboard as author director however now Jason Cloth and Dave Caplan’s C2 Motion Picture Group (Babylon) is financing and can produce alongside Daniela Taplin Lundberg (The Kids Are All Right) of Stay Gold Features and Kevin Mann (Together, Together).
Amy Pascal (Spider-Man: No Way Home) will function govt producer alongside Keaton. CAA Media Finance and UTA Independent Film Group are repping home. Principal pictures is because of begin in April in LA.
Meyers-Shyer mentioned: “Goodrich is an homage to the films of the 70’s and 80’s that brilliantly melded comedy with drama, films directed by greats like Mike Nichols and James L. Brooks. I wrote this film for the incomparable Michael Keaton and I can’t wait for audiences to see Michael back in the genre where we all fell in love with him.”
Keaton is coming off the lauded flip in Dopesick and can return to his iconic function of Bruce Wayne/Batman in The Flash, 31 years after he final performed the character. After acclaimed performances in dramas similar to Spotlight and Birdman, Goodrich returns Keaton nearer to the style that made him a star within the ’80s with sequence and flicks similar to Working Stiffs, Night Shift, Mr Mom and Beetlejuice. Goodrich appears to have explicit echoes of field workplace hit Mr Mom (1983) however with a extra dramatic edge.
Meyers-Shyer’s 2017 directorial debut, comedy Home Again, starred Reese Witherspoon and made near $40M worldwide.
Cloth and Caplan’s C2 Motion Picture Group most just lately co-financed Paramount’s Babylon, with Brad Pitt, Margot Robbie, Olivia Wilde and Tobey Maguire. In submit are The End We Start with Jodie Comer and Benedict Cumberbatch, and Azrael, the horror movie starring Samara Weaving.
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