EXCLUSIVE: Dakota Fanning (Ripley), Jake Johnson (Minx) and Cory Michael Smith (Mountainhead) have signed on to star in an untitled romantic drama written and directed by Joe Swanberg.
We’re informed the movie is about in numerous areas all through Alaska, however plot particulars are beneath wraps. Fanning, Johnson and Smith additionally will produce alongside Swanberg and Ashleigh Snead, with Dan Johnson, Kathy Gitibin Parsa and Ariana Parsa serving as govt producers.
The undertaking marks Swanberg’s fourth collaboration with Johnson, following Ingesting Buddies, Digging for Fireplace and Win It All.
Coming off of Netflix’s hit collection The Excellent Couple and her first Emmy nomination for her work within the streamer’s miniseries Ripley, Fanning subsequent will group with sister Elle Fanning to supply and star in an anticipated adaptation of bestseller The Nightingale for TriStar, which is slated for launch in February 2027. Upcoming, she’ll even be seen starring in Peacock’s thriller miniseries All Her Fault, reverse Sarah Snook, in addition to Bryan Bertino’s Paramount horror movie Vicious.
Johnson not too long ago made his characteristic directorial debut with the comedic thriller Self Reliance, which he additionally wrote, produced and stars in, and set the movie up at Hulu following its SXSW premiere. Finest recognized for turns in Fox’s long-running sitcom New Lady and Starz’s cult hit Minx, which he additionally exec produced, he’ll subsequent be seen starring reverse Ben Stiller and others in Josh Greenbaum’s pickleball comedy The Dink, which he additionally produced, in addition to the Apple collection Most Pleasure Assured.
Not too long ago signing on to steer Jeremy Saulnier’s October, a Halloween-set fugitive thriller for A24 — as we informed you first — Smith is coming off a starring flip reverse Steve Carell, Jason Schwartzman and Ramy Youssef within the HBO movie Mountainhead from Succession‘s Jesse Armstrong. He drew robust evaluations for his latest flip as Chevy Chase in Jason Reitman’s Saturday Night time and subsequent might be seen starring alongside co-star Dakota’s sister Elle in Sentimental Worth, the lauded Joachim Trier dramedy that received Cannes’ Grand Prix and is slated for launch with Neon and Mubi this fall. Upcoming, he additionally has A24’s Well-known, the place he seems alongside Zac Efron.
Indie mainstay Swanberg has directed greater than 20 options together with Ingesting Buddies, Digging for Fireplace, Completely satisfied Christmas and Nights and Weekends, which he co-directed with Greta Gerwig. Along with writing and directing all 25 episodes of Netflix’s Chicago anthology Simple, he’s directed in TV for HBO, twentieth Century Fox and Netflix. As an actor, he has appeared in movies by Ti West (The Sacrament), Adam Wingard (You’re Subsequent), Josephine Decker (Thou Wast Delicate and Beautiful), and Mickey Keating (Invader). He co-wrote and produced Dave Franco’s directorial debut, The Rental, and has additionally produced movies by Alex Ross Perry, Zach Clark, Lynn Shelton and Dustin Man Defa.
Fanning, Johnson, and Smith all are represented by UTA. Fanning is also repped by TFC Administration and HJTH; Johnson by Jackoway Austen Tyerman; and Smith by Circle Administration + Manufacturing. Swanberg is repped by Leisure 360.
