EXCLUSIVE: Production is underway successful nan U.S. connected indie characteristic Father Son Time, a character-driven play starring Landon Ashworth (Go On), Colin O’Brien (The Monkey), and Jess Weixler (Monsters: The Lyle and Erik Menendez Story).
The movie centers connected Clay, an autistic begetter who takes his boy connected a outpouring break roadworthy travel without revealing nan journey’s existent purpose: reconnecting pinch nan woman and mother who near them 15 years earlier.
Written and directed by Josh Long, nan task follows his activity co-writing nan psychological thriller Some Other Woman, directed by Joel David Moore and starring Tom Felton and Ashley Greene, which debuted theatrically done Radiant Films International.
Cinematography is by Antonio Cisneros, whose caller activity includes nan Sundance-premiering Cookie Queens, executive-produced by Prince Harry and Meghan, arsenic good arsenic Disney+’s Mickey: The Story of a Mouse.
The movie is co-produced by Long, Peter Borrud of Reverant Films, and Alyssa Radmand Devine of PigRat Productions, and is partnering pinch Joey Travolta’s Inclusion Films, a programme dedicated to providing training and profession opportunities successful filmmaking for individuals pinch developmental disabilities.
“The struggle of trying to beryllium nan correct benignant of dada is thing I deliberation astir each day,” said Long. “I wanted to research a communicative astir a neurodivergent genitor raising a neurotypical child, nan unsocial challenges that travel pinch that dynamic, and nan kinds of characters shaped by those experiences.”
Weixler is known for comedy-fantasy movie Teeth, The Good Wife and Ryan Murphy’s Monster. Astrophysicist turned character Ashworth has appeared successful MacGruber, NCIS, and The Resident. O’Brien is known for Wonka, Apple TV+’s Dear Edward, and will adjacent beryllium seen successful Hulu’s upcoming Dan Fogelman bid The Land.
Weixler is represented by Gersh and Mosaic; O’Brien by Luber Roklin Entertainment and Innovative Artists; and Ashworth by J Pervis.