Universal Dates Rom-Com ‘The Catch’ For 2027 As Emma Stone And Chris Pine Officially Close Deals To Star

EXCLUSIVE: Universal Pictures is getting fresh to return audiences retired to nan shot crippled adjacent outpouring arsenic nan stdio has dated nan rom com The Catch, starring Emma Stone and Chris Pine, for May 21, 2027. Deadline precocious reported that Pine was successful early talks to subordinate Stone successful nan upcoming pic directed by  Dave McCary. Patrick Kang and Michael Levin penned nan script.

Plot specifications stay chartless different past it being described arsenic a two-hander rom-com. Stone had been weighing respective options successful nan fall, but aft a caller draught came successful on The Catch, she turned her attraction to this task and erstwhile Pine was connected board, nan movie nan was spell for later this year.

Shawn Levy and Dan Levine will nutrient done 21 Laps. Michael H. Weber will produce. Stone, McCary and Ali Herting will nutrient done Fruit Tree. Universal signed Fruit Tree to a first-look deal after landing nan movie successful 2024.

Universal’s Senior EVP Production Development Erik Baiers and Creative Executive Jacqueline Garell will oversee nan task connected behalf of nan studio.

Stone is represented by Brillstein Entertainment Partners, WME and Johnson Shapiro Slewett & Kole. Pine is represented by CAA, Brillstein Entertainment Partners and Gendler, Kelly & Cunningham. Fruit Tree is represented by WME, Mosaic and Brillstein Entertainment Partners.

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