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EXCLUSIVE: Amid nan buzzy rollout of Love Story: John F. Kennedy Jr. & Carolyn Bessette, which she co-headlines for FX, Sarah Pidgeon has entered talks to prima alongside Kevin Costner and Jake Gyllenhaal successful Honeymoon pinch Harry, Amazon MGM Studios‘ caller dramedy from board Glenn Ficarra and John Requa.
No connection yet connected nan domiciled to beryllium played by Pidgeon. Based connected nan book by Bart Baker, Honeymoon pinch Harry follows a rough-around-the-edges man (Gyllenhaal) who ends up sharing an unwanted travel pinch his fiancée’s prickly, overprotective begetter (Costner) aft a life-altering move upends their plans. Against nan backdrop of an land honeymoon, nan 2 men conflict and bicker earlier gradually uncovering an unexpected bond.
Dan Fogelman penned nan script. Producers see Fogelman, Mike Karz via Gulfstream Pictures, and Jennifer Salke via her precocious launched Sullivan Street Productions banner. The task marks nan latter’s first pinch Amazon MGM since stepping down arsenic caput of nan workplace and her producing debut. Salke reunites pinch Fogelman aft championing his deed family play This Is Us during her pre-Amazon MGM days arsenic President of NBC Entertainment.
Honeymoon pinch Harry besides reunites Karz and Gulfstream Pictures pinch Amazon MGM Studios pursuing their activity connected nan romanticist comedy Upgraded, starring Camila Mendes, and racing pic One Fast Move, starring KJ Apa and Eric Dane. Currently, nan companies are besides moving together connected Goodbye Girl, nan caller rom-com starring Kiernan Shipka and Cole Sprouse connected which we were first to report.
Pidgeon stars other Paul Anthony Kelly, playing Carolyn Bessette to his John F. Kennedy Jr., successful FX’s caller Ryan Murphy bid Love Story, which has deed nan zeitgeist successful nan past month, breaking records to go nan most-watched constricted bid connected some Hulu and Disney+ pinch 25M+ hours viewed for its first 5 episodes alone. Ahead of nan show’s premiere, she landed a starring domiciled alongside Liam Hemsworth, Caleb Landry Jones, and Dianne Wiest successful Paul Schrader’s caller seductive thriller, Non Compos Mentis, announced during EFM.
Pidgeon earned a Tony information for her activity successful nan David Adjmi play Stereophonic, which marked her Broadway debut. She is represented by Gersh, Anonymous Content, and Jackoway Austen Tyerman.
