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EXCLUSIVE: Charlie Gillespie (Julie and nan Phantoms), Sara Waisglass (Ginny & Georgia) and Siena Augudong (Sidelined: The QB and Me) person been group to prima successful YA romance The One Before The One, which Blue Fox Entertainment is launching astatine nan Cannes market.
Production is slated to statesman July 6 successful Austin, Texas, connected nan movie written and to beryllium directed by Brittany Sarkisian, based connected a communicative by John E Clark. The movie is produced by Sarkisian and Jaylen Moore for Showmance Productions, on pinch Raja Collins, Dan Sheldon and Tara Pirnia.
The synopsis reads: “When burned-out Wall Street expert Steven (Gillespie) returns to his hometown for his twentieth precocious schoolhouse reunion, he is inexplicably transported backmost to his elder twelvemonth and reunited pinch his mislaid love, Beth (Agudong). Steven becomes wished to rewrite history, but nan type of Beth he spent 20 years idolizing whitethorn not beryllium nan soulmate he remembered. While trying to guarantee his champion friend Brian doesn’t erstwhile again miss nan opportunity to play assemblage football, and rebuilding his narration pinch his longtime friend and songwriter, Katie (Waisglass), Steven slow comes to recognize that nan life and emotion he ever wished for mightiness not beryllium nan 1 that sewage away.”
The movie is said to beryllium “set against nan backdrop of late-90s nostalgia: nokia phones, location parties, alt rock, and nan looming panic surrounding Y2K”.
“We’re thrilled to beryllium handling worldwide income for Brittany Sarkisian’s characteristic directorial debut,” said Blue Fox Entertainment president Lisa Gutberlet. “The movie takes a acquainted and profoundly relatable thought and approaches it successful a fresh, imaginative and heartfelt way. Everyone has wondered what it would beryllium for illustration to relive a pivotal infinitesimal of their life pinch nan contented they person now. Combined pinch this tremendously charismatic cast, nan movie has each nan ingredients to resonate pinch audiences astir nan world.”
Charlie Gillespie is represented by Vanderwerff Talent and David Dean Management. Sara Waisglass is represented by Play Management and Amplified. Siena Agudong is represented by nan Gersh Agency, Amsel, Eisenstadt, Frazier & Hinojosa Talent Agency (AEFH) and Trilogy Talent.
