EXCLUSIVE: Duplass Brothers Manufacturing not too long ago wrapped manufacturing on the Katie Aselton-directed function Magic Hour, starring Daveed Diggs (Blindspotting, Hamilton). Aselton (Outdated Dads, Legion) stars alongside Diggs within the venture which she co-wrote with Mark Duplass.
Particulars concerning the venture’s plot and character descriptions are underneath wraps. Magic Hour is government produced by Duplass, Mel Eslyn and Jay Duplass. Emily Neumann produced.
Aselton is a multi-hyphenate with directing credit together with The Freebie (2010), Black Rock (2012) and most not too long ago, Mack & Rita (2022) and performing credit that span each TV and movie. On TV, she starred in FX’s Legion and Apple TV+’s The Morning Present; and on the large display screen, in Outdated Dads (2023), The Unholy (2021), Bombshell (2019) and the John Lithgow and Blythe Danner function The Tomorrow Man. She is repped by CAA and Untitled Leisure.
Up subsequent for Diggs, he’ll star as Josh within the indie movie A Tree Fell within the Woods from author and director Nora Kirkpatrick shot in Utah in 2023; and Andrew Stanton’s In The Blink of an Eye additionally starring Kate McKinnon and Rashida Jones. On the TV entrance, he continues to play the lead function of Andre Layton within the post-apocalyptic dystopian thriller Snowpiercer which AMC not too long ago picked up following TNT’s cancelation.
He’s greatest recognized for his roles within the hit musical Hamilton, which earned him a Tony Award in 2016 and for writing, producing and starring within the movie Blindspotting alongside Rafael Casal. The duo co-created and starred within the Starz spinoff sequel collection of the identical identify.
The Duplass Brothers’ productions embody IFC’s 2023 title Biosphere, Eslyn’s independently produced and financed TV collection, Penelope, in addition to the Netflix documentary collection The Octopus Murders.
