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EXCLUSIVE: Mark Williams has rounded retired nan formed of his indie play Hal, starring Alexander Ludwig and Emma Roberts.
Newcomers see Matthew Goode (Department Q), Kate Walsh (Grey’s Anatomy), Taylor John Smith (Where nan Crawdads Sing), Garret Dillahunt (No Country for Old Men), Robert Patrick (Terminator 2: Judgment Day), Colm Meaney (Star Trek: The Next Generation), Justin Bartha (The Hangover), Nicolette Sheridan (Desperate Housewives), Maurice Compte (Narcos), Kevin Chapman (Person of Interest), Ian Bohen (Yellowstone), Chris Diamantopoulos (Silicon Valley), Jason Kennedy (E! News), and Robert Treveiler (The Accountant).
We’re told Goode will represent nan begetter of Ludwig’s title character, Hal. Further characteristic specifications are nether wraps.
Written by Mark Edwin Robinson, Hal is inspired by nan existent communicative down nan founding of humanitarian statement Convoy of Hope. The communicative follows Hal Donaldson (Ludwig), a journalist shaped by early hardship who believes his sound is his way forward. When he meets Doree (Roberts), a talented musician, their narration becomes nan instauration that steadies him arsenic his profession takes him to places marked by heavy suffering.
As Hal witnesses situation and inequality firsthand, nan statement betwixt watching and acting originates to blur. Confronted pinch nan limits of telling stories alone, he is drawn toward a calling that requires much than words — mounting successful mobility nan events that lead to nan creation of Convoy of Hope.
Since its founding successful 1994, Convoy of Hope has delivered hundreds of millions of meals and provided cleanable h2o to millions of people. Operating successful dozens of countries, they’re recognized for their large-scale disaster alleviation operations, semipermanent organization improvement programs, and expertise to mobilize public-private partnerships to scope group others cannot.
Shot betwixt Atlanta and Colombia, Hal is produced by Zero Gravity Management. Other antecedently announced formed members see Ernie Hudson, Leslie Bibb, Aidan Quinn and Jeffrey Donovan.
Goode is repped by 42 and CAA; Walsh by Gersh, Principal Entertainment LA, and Yorn, Levine, Barnes; Smith by CAA, Vybe Trybe, and Felker McGinnis & Ryan; Dillahunt by Independent Artist Group and D2 Management; Patrick by Gersh and Coronel Group; Meaney by IAG, Accelerate, Liebman Entertainment, and Brecheen Feldman Breimer; Bartha by Gersh, Mgmt Entertainment, and Jackoway Austen Tyerman; Compte by Gersh, Zero Gravity Management, and Jackoway Austen Tyerman; Chapman by TalentWorks, Stride Management, and Jackoway Austen; Bohen by Zero Gravity Management and Hansen, Jacobson, Teller; Diamantopoulos by Paradigm, Untitled Entertainment, and Goodman, Genow, Schenkman; and Treveiler by JTA Talent and Schumacher Management.
