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EXCLUSIVE: After reinventing nan meal statement pic pinch The Invite, Olivia Wilde is looking to get into nan vacation tone for her adjacent directorial outing. Sources show Deadline Universal Pictures person greenlit her vacation drama Naughty and tapped Jennifer Aniston and Peter Dinklage to star. The workplace besides dated nan pic for Nov. 5, 2027. Wilde is connected committee to nonstop pinch LuckyChap producing.
Naughty follows Mallory (Aniston), whose only dream of securing custody of her boy from her gaslighting trash-bag ex is to find Santa Claus (Dinklage) and person him to attest successful her divorcement hearing. The movie feels for illustration a cleanable follow-up task for Wilde, who conscionable showcased her skills arsenic a drama head pinch The Invite, 1 of nan champion reviewed films of nan year.
Jimmy Warden penned nan script, which originated from his original spec that Universal landed successful 2023 pinch Wilde connected committee to direct. Though Wilde would spell connected to nonstop The Invite first while Warden good tuned nan script, she ever had Aniston and Dinklage successful mind to prima arsenic Mallory and Santa.
Following nan occurrence of The Invite, the workplace knew it had to move accelerated to make judge they didn’t suffer Wilde to different task and complete nan past weeks, worked retired Aniston and Dinklage’s schedule while getting it successful beforehand of a greenlight committee who signed disconnected and group it for Nov. 2027.
LuckyChap will nutrient on pinch Wilde and Warden. Executive Vice President of Production Development Sara Scott and Director of Production Development Jacqueline Garell will oversee nan task for nan studio.
The Invite had highest movie waste retired of Sundance and acquired by A24 aft an all-night bidding war. The movie has had nan champion level merchandise of nan year, reinforcing nan urgency for theatrical comedies. So acold it has earned $20mm US and $16mm internationally pinch astir European markets yet to release.
The movie has a professional standing of 97% connected Rotten Tomatoes, 1 of nan highest of nan twelvemonth pinch 90% of group successful exit polls recommended seeing it successful nan theatre arsenic an acquisition vs astatine home.
While she has spent a batch of her clip precocious earning Emmy nominations for her critically acclaimed domiciled successful nan Apple play bid The Morning Show, Aniston is nary alien to making audiences laughter for nan past mates of decades going backmost to her Emmy-winning domiciled connected Friends. Since past her deed comedies person included We’re The Millers, The Breakup and the Murder Mystery movies and this movie feels for illustration a return to form. The last play of The Morning Show was conscionable announced by Apple.
The Emmy-winning Dinklage precocious produced and starred successful nan films American Dreamer, The Thicket and Brothers done his accumulation institution Estuary Films. He was besides portion of nan SAG nominated ensemble for nan smash deed Wicked. Upcoming films Idiots and Wicker, which some premiered astatine nan Sundance Film Festival and will beryllium released successful nan Summer and Fall respectively.
On nan TV side, he was precocious connected nan caller play of nan celebrated bid Dexter: Resurrection and The Lowdown and was conscionable added to nan formed of Noah Hawley’s Alien: Earth for nan upcoming 2nd season.
Aniston is repped by CAA, Lighthouse Management & Media, and Hansen, Jacobson, Teller. Dinklage is represented by CAA and Jackoway Austen Tyerman. Wilde is represented by CAA, Untitled Entertainment and Johnson Shapiro Slewett & Kole. Warden is represented by CAA, Untitled Entertainment, Sunshine Sachs Morgan & Lylis and Ziffren Brittenham. LuckyChap is represented by Entertainment 360, CAA and lawyer Jeff Bernstein.
