EXCLUSIVE: Karen Gillan (Guardians of the Galaxy franchise) and Zoë Chao (Nightbitch) will lead the forged of Let’s Have Youngsters!, a characteristic comedy from MRC that’s heading into manufacturing this week.
Marking the directorial debut of Black Adam and Due Date scribe Adam Sztykiel, pic’s ensemble additionally consists of Sam Richardson (The Afterparty) Max Greenfield (The Neighborhood), Okay.J. Apa (Riverdale), Ed Begley Jr. (Younger Sheldon) and Oscar winner Mary Steenburgen (Nightmare Alley).
Let’s Have Youngsters! tells the story of lifelong greatest associates Emma and Phoebe, who resolve to attempt to have their first infants on the similar time to allow them to navigate the Nice Unknown of motherhood collectively, however discover their friendship is deeply examined when solely one among them will get pregnant. Sztykiel and Ellie Knaus wrote the script and also will produce alongside Becky Sloviter (Palm Springs) — the lately appointed President of Miramax Movement Image Group, who’s on board by way of manufacturing firm A Dare to Be Nice State of affairs.
Maybe greatest identified for her function as Nebula within the Guardians of the Galaxy movies, Gillan will subsequent be seen in Lisa Steen’s coming-of-age drama Late Bloomers, a SXSW title that Vertical will distribute. Different upcoming initiatives embody Steven Moffat’s cancel tradition dramedy sequence Douglas Is Cancelled for ITV, by which she stars reverse Hugh Bonneville, and Mike Flanagan’s Stephen King adaptation The Lifetime of Chuck.
Latest credit for Chao embody Peacock’s sci-fi rom-com If You Had been the Final reverse Anthony Mackie, the Netflix rom-com Your Place or Mine reverse Reese Witherspoon, Starz’s reboot of cult comedy Get together Down and Apple TV+’s acclaimed homicide thriller comedy The Afterparty. Upcoming, she’ll be seen in Marielle Heller’s darkish comedy Nightbitch reverse Amy Adams and James Gunn’s animated sequence Creature Commandos.
Choose screenwriting credit for Sztykiel embody Netflix’s comedy Household Change, Warner Bros’ Black Adam and Robert Downey Jr. comedy Due Date, and Columbia Footage’ Fabricated from Honor. Moreover, he created the sitcom Undateable, which ran for 3 seasons on NBC.
Gillan is represented by UTA, Maison Two, Linden Leisure and Jackoway Austen Tyerman; Chao by CAA, Leisure 360 and Schreck Rose Dapello; Richardson by UTA, Artists First, and Jackoway Austen; Greenfield by UTA, Untitled Leisure, and Johnson, Shapiro, Slewett & Kole; Apa by UTA, Luber Roklin Leisure, and Jackoway Austen; Begley by Progressive Artists and Constellation Media Group; Steenburgen by UTA, Leisure 360, and Gang, Tyre, Ramer; Sztykiel by UTA, Kaplan/Perrone Leisure, and McKuin Frankel Whitehead; and Knaus by Kaplan/Perrone and UTA.
