Certainly one of many hottest tasks hitting the Cannes market this yr is “Tomorrow Is a Drag,” the anticipated comeback of Oscar-winning filmmaker Kenneth Lonergan with a starry ensemble led by Aubrey Plaza (upcoming “The Thomas Crown Affair,” “Ingrid Goes West,” “The White Lotus”) alongside Academy Award nominees Adam Driver (“Star Wars” franchise, “Paper Tiger,” “Marriage Story”) and Vanessa Kirby (“Mission Impossible” franchise, “Pieces of a Woman,” “The Crown”) and Matthew Broderick (“Manchester by the Sea”, “The Producers”).
“Tomorrow Is a Drag” marks Lonergan’s first directorial effort since “Manchester by the Sea,” which received Casey Affleck an Oscar for greatest actor and an Oscar for authentic screenplay, in addition to a greatest director nomination.
MK2 Movies is dealing with worldwide gross sales, whereas WME reps North America. MK2 Movies is at Cannes with 11 options throughout the official choice, together with 5 in competitors: Marie Kreutzer’s “Gentle Monster,” Léa Mysius’ “The Birthday Party,” Andrey Zvyagintsev’s “Minotaur,” Ira Sachs’ “The Man I Love” and Koji Fukada’s “Nagi Notes.”
Plot particulars are being saved beneath wraps, although the title hints on the writer-director’s signature mix of humor and touching character research that outlined “Manchester by the Sea,” in addition to “Margaret” and his debut “You Can Count on Me.” Sara Murphy, the Oscar-winning producer of Paul Thomas Anderson’s “One Battle After Another,” is producing beneath her Fats Metropolis outfit. Manufacturing is scheduled to start this fall in New York.
Driver, who’s in Cannes to current James Grey’s “Piper Tiger” in competitors, beforehand labored with Lonergan on the Off-Broadway play “Hold On to Me Darling.” “Tomorrow Is a Drag” additionally reunites Lonergan with Broderick after a pair of movies, “Margaret” and “You Can Count of Me,” in addition to the play “The Starry Messenger.”
