EXCLUSIVE: Jimmi Simpson (Pachinko) and Clancy Brown (Dexter: New Blood) have boarded Ami Canaan Mann’s biopic Audrey’s Children for Amasia Entertainment (Wild Mountain Thyme) and Resonate Entertainment (Sitting in Bars with Cake), with Brandon Micheal Hall (Search Party), Julianna Layne (Prodigal Son), Ben Chase (The Thing About Pam) and Evelyn Giovine (The Crowded Room) additionally signing on for roles.
The movie at the moment in manufacturing in Philadelphia tells the story of Dr. Audrey Evans (Natalie Dormer), the revolutionary pediatric oncologist finest often called the co-founder of Ronald McDonald House Charities — the world-famous group that gives housing and help to thousands and thousands of households in 62 international locations all over the world. Pic’s set in 1969 and follows her as she bursts onto the scene because the Chief of Pediatric Oncology at Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia, when the survival price for youngsters with most cancers was lower than 10%. In an effort to revolutionize remedy and to offer housing and help to households of sick youngsters, Evans pushes boundaries and implements a complete care method that, to at the present time, advantages thousands and thousands.
Simpson will play the late Dr. Dan D’Angio, a sort and sensible chief in radiation oncology whose by-the-book method to care contrasts Audrey’s irreverent methods. Together they embark on a lifelong partnership in pioneering pediatric most cancers therapies that change the sphere eternally.
Brown will tackle the position of Dr. C. Everett Koop, the larger-than-life Head of Pediatric Surgery at CHOP and eventual Surgeon General of the United States. Dr. Koop is thought for his resolution to recruit Evans to guide the oncology division, although he shortly turns into annoyed along with her unorthodox strategies.
Hall will painting Dr. Brian Faust, Evans’ keen and gifted resident who’s hungry for change, with Layne as Mia McAlister, a dire younger affected person who Evans enlists in a trial research in an try to save lots of her life. Chase performs Dr. Jeremy Lewis, Audrey’s adversary and later champion, with Giovine as Kate Watson, the stoic single mom of a most cancers affected person who connects with Audrey’s power of character.
Julia Fisher Farbman (Modern Hero) wrote the screenplay, which was primarily based on years of analysis and conversations with Evans, who’s now 97 years previous and helps the movie. Farbman may even produce the privately financed pic alongside Amasia’s Bradley Gallo and Michael Helfant. Brent Emery, Suzanne Farwell and Susan Cartsonis will exec produce for Resonate, alongside Michael Leahy (Paradise Highway), with Clément Bauer serving as co-producer. Orly Sitowitz (Star Trek: Strange New Worlds) is the mission’s casting director.
Simpson is an Emmy and BAFTA Award nominee finest identified for activates such sequence as The Man Who Fell to Earth, Pachinko, Star Trek: Prodigy, Ultra City Smiths, Westworld, Unsolved: The Murders of Tupac and the Notorious B.I.G., Black Mirror, Hap and Leonard, House of Cards and It’s Always Sunny in Philadelphia, amongst others. Notable current movie credit embody Studio 666, Breaking News in Yuba County, Unhinged and Under the Silver Lake. The actor will subsequent be seen in Michael Maren’s comedy Shriver with Michael Shannon, Charlie Day’s directorial debut El Tonto and Thom Harp’s comedy, Home Delivery.
Brown just lately performed serial killer Kurt Caldwell on Dexter: New Blood and has additionally appeared on sequence like Emergence, Billions, Schooled, Sleepy Hollow, The Flash and Carnivàle, to call just a few. Notable movie credit from current years embody Promising Young Woman, Lady and the Tramp, The Ballad of Buster Scruggs and Chappaquiddick. Coming up subsequent for the actor is John Wick: Chapter 4.
Hall has been seen on sequence together with Chloe, Search Party and God Friended Me, and in movies like Monster Party and The Surrogate. He’ll subsequent seem within the dramedy The Young Wife, from writer-director Tayarisha Poe.
Layne has just lately appeared within the indie Scrap and on the Fox sequence Prodigal Son, and can subsequent seem within the movie A Christmas Story Christmas, amongst different tasks.
Chase has been seen on sequence together with The Thing About Pam and Law & Order: Organized Crime, and in movies like The Last Thing He Wanted.
Giovine’s current credit embody City on a Hill, Prodigal Son and Evil. She can be seen subsequent within the Apple sequence The Crowded Room, led by Tom Holland.
Simpson is represented by CAA and Hansen, Jacobson, Teller; Brown by CAA and Pop Art Management; Hall by Gersh and Felker Toczek Suddleson; Layne by Take 3 Talent; Chase by Authentic Talent and Literary Management and Goodman, Genow, Schenkman; and Giovine by APA and Soffer Entertainment.
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