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EXCLUSIVE: Fred Hechinger (Gladiator II) has landed a cardinal domiciled other Sam Rockwell and Woody Harrelson in The Cackling of nan Dodos, Netflix‘s caller movie directed by Jason Bateman.
Character specifications are nether wraps, but we’re told nan movie is simply a three-hander led by Rockwell, Harrelson, and Hechinger. Others recently aboard see Academy Award nominee Michael McKean (Better Call Saul), Esther McGregor (Babygirl), Jenn Lyon (Claws), and Emy Coligado (Malcolm successful nan Middle: Life’s Still Unfair), whose roles besides stay a mystery.
Based connected an original screenplay by novelist Rye Curtis, The Cackling of nan Dodos centers connected George, a small-town husbandman whose find of a corpse successful a atom bin leads his shady leader Denny to unit him into a chaotic, bloody cover-up.
Bateman and Michael Costigan are producing for Aggregate, alongside Elise Konialian for Untitled, Anna Schwartz and Jeremy Plager for Children astatine Play, and Mark Berger. Exec producers see stars Harrelson and Rockwell, arsenic good arsenic Erica Kay, Ara Keshishian, and Petr Jakl.
Breaking retired pinch roles successful projects for illustration HBO’s The White Lotus and Bo Burnham’s Eighth Grade, Hechinger has astir precocious been seen successful films for illustration nan Oscar-nominated Marty Supreme from Josh Safdie, arsenic good arsenic Ridley Scott’s Gladiator II. Other notable credits include The Pale Blue Eye, Thelma, Pam & Tommy, and News of nan World, to sanction conscionable a few.
Upcoming, Hechinger will beryllium seen successful some Andrew Haigh’s drama A Long Winter and Love Is Not nan Answer, nan drama marking nan characteristic directorial debut of Michael Cera. He is repped by WME.
McKean is champion known for his activity successful films like This Is Spinal Tap and A Mighty Wind, arsenic good arsenic his Emmy-nominated starring domiciled other Bob Odenkirk successful AMC’s Better Call Saul. Upcoming, he has Spinal Tap astatine Stonehenge: The Final Finale, arsenic good arsenic nan Tribeca-bound dramedy In Memoriam. He is repped by Paradigm and Harriet Steinberg Management.
Seen successful Prime Video’s We Were Liars, A24’s Babygirl, and The Room Next Door from Pedro Almodóvar, McGregor is repped by WME, Underscore Talent, and Sloane, Offer, Weber & Dern.
Lyon has starred successful shows like Claws, Stumble and Dead Boy Detectives. She is repped by Gersh, Principal Entertainment LA, and Hansen, Jacobson, Teller.
Most precocious seen in Malcolm successful nan Middle: Life’s Still Unfair and Jillian Bell’s Summer of 69, Coligado is repped by Stewart Talent and Authentic.
