Tim Robbins and Sissy Spacek have joined Emma Stone and Chris Pine in The Catch, a romantic comedy from Common Footage.
The 2 Academy Award winners add some luster to the decision sheet, which already consists of Saturday Evening Reside breakout Ashley Padilla and comic Druski, on high of Stone and Pine.
Dave McCary, who acted as a section director on SNL within the 2010s and is married to Stone, is helming the characteristic, which begins taking pictures in July in New York.
Whereas most of the plot particulars are being stored within the catcher’s mitt, sources say the rom-com is described as Bull Durham meets Notting Hill with Stone taking part in essentially the most hated lady in baseball. Pine can be taking part in a baseball participant.
Robbins will play Stone’s father whereas Spacek might be taking part in an aunt.
Jen Statsky and Travis Helwig wrote the most up-to-date draft of the script. Patrick Kang and Michael Levin wrote the authentic spec script.
Common has set a Could 21, 2027, launch date for the rom-com.
For Robbins, the comedy is a return to the mound, considerably, because the actor hit breakout standing together with his work in Bull Durham, the 1988 baseball film thought-about top-of-the-line sports activities movies within the discipline. The actor has been spending time in TV land of late, showing in Apple TV’s Silo and earlier than that, Hulu’s Fortress Rock. The final characteristic he did was Todd Haynes’ 2019 conspiracy thriller Darkish Waters.
Spacek appeared with Jennifer Lawrence in final 12 months’s Die My Love, in addition to reverse Michelle Williams in Hulu restricted sequence Dying for Intercourse.
Robbins is repped by CAA and Nameless Content material, whereas Spacek is repped by UTA, MGMT Leisure, Rowan & Maron and Fats Dot.
