EXCLUSIVE: Zooey Deschanel (Dreamin’ Wild) has signed on to star in Merv (wt), a romantic comedy that Jessica Swale will direct for Amazon MGM Studios.
Written by Linsey Stewart and Dane Clark, the movie watches as an estranged couple learns that the canine they share is affected by melancholy following their break-up, awkwardly reconciling over the vacations once they take their canine on a sunny trip to Florida to carry his spirits.
Producers of the pic are Matt Baer and Roma Downey.
Greatest recognized for starring in movies like (500) Days of Summer season, Sure Man, Nearly Well-known, and the vacation basic Elf, in addition to Fox’s hit sitcom New Woman, Deschanel has most just lately been seen starring reverse Casey Affleck in Roadside’s Emerson brothers drama Dreamin’ Wild from Love & Mercy helmer Invoice Pohlad, which world premiered on the Venice Movie Competition. Different current initiatives for the Emmy nominee embody Apple TV+’s Bodily, Trolls Band Collectively, and Sony’s live-action tackle kids’s guide Harold and the Purple Crayon, out this August.
An Olivier Award-winning author and director, Swale has been behind movies like Summerland and Horrible Histories, in addition to such performs as Nell Gwynn and Blue Stockings.
At present adapting the critically acclaimed novel Ms. Bixby’s Final Day for Gunpowder & Sky and Walden Media, Clark and Stewart previous to that labored on Betty’s Prepared for Sony and producer Matt Tolmach.
Deschanel is represented by CAA, Leisure 360, and Hansen, Jacobson, Teller. Swale is repped by Gersh and The Soho Company within the UK. Stewart & Clark are with Verve, Administration 360, and attorneys Lev Ginsburg and Grace Daniels.