EXCLUSIVE: Ted Lasso‘s Juno Temple is about to steer Intimacy Get together, a high-concept ensemble rom-com marking the characteristic directorial debut of Courtney Hoffman.
Written by Hoffman and Paul Kruse, Intimacy Get together follows Cleo Kauffman, a girl decided to avoid wasting her relationship by recreating the intimacy occasion the place she first met her fiancé, solely to find she fell for the mistaken visitor.
Others within the solid embrace Richa Moorjani (Fargo), Meredith Hagner (Search Get together), Michiel Huisman (Recreation of Thrones), Chris Pang (Loopy Wealthy Asians), Brandon Kyle Goodman (Huge Mouth), Miles Gutierrez-Riley (Agatha All Alongside) and Patrick Renna (The Sandlot).
Hoffman, whose directorial work contains American Horror Tales and the upcoming Kaitlyn Dever-led characteristic The Sisters of Scott County, wrote Intimacy Get together from private expertise.
“Earlier than I fell in love with my finest buddy, I used to be making an attempt every part to avoid wasting a relationship that not labored,” she stated. “That crossroads finally grew to become Intimacy Get together. It’s deeply private, however I hope it’s additionally common — a celebration of what can occur once we let go of management and permit ourselves to be really seen.”
Presently in manufacturing in Los Angeles with a California tax incentive, the movie is produced by Delirio Movies’ Christopher Leggett and Rafael Marmor, alongside Jesse Schiller and Hoffman. Amanda Massetti and Bri Hennessey of Pasta & Tacos Productions are exec producers.
Delirio’s Leggett commented, “From the primary learn, it was clear Hoffman was a filmmaker with a singular viewpoint. We’re thrilled to assist launch her characteristic directing profession with this extraordinary solid and artistic workforce. I’ve little question she’ll change into one of the crucial distinctive new voices in filmmaking.”
Calling Intimacy Get together “wildly entertaining and emotionally sincere, with characters who’re messy, difficult and deeply human,” Pasta & Tacos co-founder Massetti stated, “[Hoffman] has a singular means to search out humor in vulnerability whereas exploring larger questions on love, id and the tales we inform ourselves.”
Co-founder Hennessey added, “It’s precisely the sort of daring, character-driven storytelling we created P&T to champion, and we’re thrilled to assist deliver Courtney’s imaginative and prescient to audiences.”
A four-time Emmy nominee who scored three noms for her function as Keeley Jones in Apple’s Ted Lasso, Temple can at the moment be seen reprising in Season 4. Current initiatives embrace Derek Cianfrance’s Roofman, Gore Verbinski’s Good Luck, Have Enjoyable, Don’t Die and the animated characteristic Swapped, which this yr grew to become Netflix’s eighth hottest movie of all time. Most not too long ago, Temple wrapped on Apple’s upcoming restricted collection The Husbands, tailored from the New York Occasions bestselling novel by Holly Gramazio. She is repped by UTA, Maison 2, B-Facet Administration and Lichter, Grossman, Nichols.
Hoffman made her directorial debut with the Western brief The Good Time Women, starring Laura Dern, and continues her deal with female-led style and motion storytelling with The Sisters of Scott County, a ’70s-set trucker movie starring Kaitlyn Dever. She directed American Horror Tales‘ Season 3 finale for FX and, as a author, has developed and offered authentic initiatives to HBO Max, Paramount, Sony, Peacock, FX and Freeform. Previous to her profession as a filmmaker, Hoffman was a lauded costume designer with credit together with Edgar Wright’s Child Driver and Quentin Tarantino’s The Hateful Eight. She is repped by Daniel Cohen at Brillstein Leisure Companions and Hannah Mulderink at Goodman, Genow, Schenkman.
Moorjani is repped by UTA, Nameless and Hayes Robbins at Goodman, Genow, Schenkman; Hagner by UTA, Sushkin/Karshan Administration and Felker McGinnis & Ryan; Huisman by UTA, Genuine Expertise and Literary Administration, Conway van Gelder Grant and Peikoff Mahan Legislation Workplace; Pang by Buchwald, Matt Sheldon at Stride Administration and Ryan LeVine at Jackoway Austen Tyerman; Goodman by WME, Julia Bodner and Kate Tressel at Envisionary Administration and Ashley Briskman at Yorn Levine Barnes; Gutierrez-Riley by CESD Expertise, Samantha Stoller at Brillstein and Ryan LeVine at Jackoway Austin; and Renna by John Griffin of Griffin Expertise.
