Overview
- The project, unveiled Friday, pairs director Craig Johnson with co-writer Ryan O’Connell and casts Carrie Coon, Ben Platt and Lukas Gage in the leads.
- Mister Smith will shop the pre-production title at the Cannes film market this month, a marketplace where sellers pre-sell distribution to help fund production.
- According to the synopsis, Platt plays Ollie, a young queer director who fixates on Coon’s Nora Dresden, and their collaboration warps into a struggle for control.
- Jared Ian Goldman and Zola Elgart Glassman produce for Mighty Engine, with financing from Unapologetic Projects partners Chris Quintos and Tyler Boehm and Working Barn’s Naia Cucukov and Peter Richards.
- CAA and UTA are co-repping U.S. rights, and the team is pitching the film as a darkly funny rework of 1990s obsession thrillers that taps stan culture and diva worship.