After a string of dramatic roles, Oscar winner Julianne Moore is strolling towards the sunshine as government producer and star of a brand new Netflix comedy movie.
The untitled undertaking hails from Higher Ground, the manufacturing enterprise based by Barack and Michelle Obama. It’s described as a multi-generational story within the vein of “Crazy, Stupid, Love,” and follows a mom (Moore) who panics when her daughter is obtainable a promotion that may take her throughout the nation. Determined, she kicks into overdrive looking for the best romantic companion to maintain her daughter at residence.
The ensemble piece is a “four-hander,” per one insider, and casting will get underway for the three remaining roles within the coming days. The movie’s script is from Maggie Sheridan, who most lately served as government story editor on the third season of Apple and Common Tv’s “Loot,” led by Maya Rudolph. Previous to “Loot,” she labored below acclaimed writer-producer Alan Yang (“Master of None”).
Increased Floor’s Anikah McLaren is producing the comedy with Moore on board as EP. This movie is the most recent collaboration between the streamer and the Obamas, who take pleasure in a first-look association at Netflix. Further titles embrace the upcoming “All the Sinners Bleed” and “The Altruists.”
Moore’s current credit embrace the scrumptious, subversive black comedy “May December” from Todd Haynes; “The Room Next Door,” which marked Pedro Almodóvar’s first-ever English-language movie; and “Echo Valley” from “Mare of Easttown” creator Brad Ingelsby. She’ll subsequent be seen in Tom Ford’s extremely anticipated third function movie, “Cry to Heaven.”
Moore is represented by WME, Leisure 360 and Edelstein, Laird & Sobel. Sheridan is with WME and Ginsburg Daniels Kallis.
The Netflix movie group has been sizzling for high-concept romantic comedies recently, saying tasks like an untitled culture-clash love story from Blackpink’s Lisa and “The White Lotus” producer Dave Bernad. They’ve additionally received a body-swap romance within the model of Jennifer Garner’s basic “13 Going on 30,” starring Emily Bader, and a Berlanti/Schechter movie on deck described as “Legally Blonde” meets “War of the Roses.”
