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EXCLUSIVE: Following her breakout domiciled successful Mr. & Mrs. Smith, Maya Erskine is now looking to move down nan camera for her adjacent task arsenic Deadline is proceeding she is group to make her directing debut connected an Untitled A24 Teen Comedy from writer Morgan Lehmann. Fruit Tree’s Emma Stone, Dave McCary and Ali Herting are producing on pinch Ley Line Entertainment’s Tim Headington and Theresa Steele Page. Ley Line Entertainment is co-financing nan film.
While crippled specifications are being kept nether wraps nan task is simply a precocious privilege astatine nan workplace aft nan workplace and Fruit Tree landed nan spec pursuing a heated bidding war. Comedies usually request a batch of talent to garner attraction from awesome studios but this spec was awesome without immoderate talent that it caught nan oculus of a number suitors earlier A24 and Fruit Tree gave nan winning bid.
Insiders opportunity moreover though Erskine had not directed a characteristic movie yet, her transportation blew distant nan workplace and producers starring Erskine to onshore her first large directing job.
While this will people her characteristic movie directing debut, Erskine had antecedently written and directed episodes of nan Emmy-nominated Hulu show Pen15.
On nan acting side, she is known for her break retired domiciled successful nan Amazon MGM Studios pic Mr. & Mrs. Smith. The workplace precocious announced Erskine and her co-star Donald Glover would beryllium reprising their roles for play 2, which is presently successful production.
She is repped by WME, Mosaic and Hansen Jacobsen Teller.
