Approaching prime of a aggressive state of affairs, Apple Unique Movies has picked One Month Mark, a romantic comedy that has Jennifer Lawrence connected to star and produce.
Playwright-writer-director Sophie Fleur de Bruijn wrote the spec script, which noticed a chase ensue to land it by producers and studios.
David Prepared and Peter Chernin of Chernin Leisure, one of many firms behind horror hit Backrooms, are producing together with Lawrence, who’s producing by way of her Wonderful Cadaver banner, in addition to Lawrence’s producing companion Justine Ciarrocchi. De Bruijn will government produce.
The logline, resembling it’s, reads thus: “She has never made it past a month in a relationship. He has never gone longer than a month without one.”
The venture doesn’t have a director however a seek for one is already underway.
That is de Bruijn’s second collaboration with Apple, following Early Motion, a spec comedy that the corporate purchased final yr. She honed comedy chops at iO and The Upright Residents Brigade, and can be graduate of the Second Metropolis Conservatory. On her web site, she says she has a “passion for crafting high energy, emotionally grounded comedies that center on unruly women and girls.”
One Month Mark is now the fourth Lawrence venture for Apple. She just lately wrapped What Occurs at Night time, Martin Scorsese’s drama that additionally stars Leonardo DiCaprio. She starred and produced the 2022 drama Causeway for the corporate and producer on the Peabody Award-winning Apple Unique 2023 documentary Bread & Roses, which instructed of girls in Afghanistan dwelling underneath the Taliban rule.
Brady Fujikawa, exec vp of Chernin Leisure, will government produce and oversee for Chernin. Chernin is having fun with a banner yr as, along with Backrooms, it launched Charlize Theron’s Netflix hit Apex in addition to the TV adaptation of Man on Fireplace.
Lawrence is represented by LBI Leisure and Hansen, Jacobson. De Bruijn is repped by Nameless Content material and Johnson Shapiro.
