EXCLUSIVE: Right here’s a pleasant one. Emmy nominee Adam Scott (Severance) is about to star in and direct his first characteristic, Double Booked, alongside Oscar nominee Sterling Okay. Brown (American Fiction), Zazie Beetz (Atlanta), and Alexandra Daddario (The White Lotus).
Protagonist Footage is launching worldwide gross sales on the upcoming Cannes market with UTA Unbiased Movie Group and CAA co-repping North America.
Double Booked follows a profitable self-help author (Scott) and his closely pregnant spouse (Beetz) who set up a weekend away at a secluded lodge, solely to come across one other couple (Brown and Daddario) at their cabin once they arrive. With a blizzard transferring in they’re compelled to spend the evening collectively, and what looks as if an harmless system error turns right into a chilling battle of deceit with lethal penalties.
The venture is written by David Levinson (Welcome House), and produced by Adam Goodman (Juror # 2) and Matt Skiena (Juror #2) for Dichotomy Inventive Group, and Adam Scott and Naomi Scott for Nice Scott Productions.
“Double Booked is a taut, fringe of your seat revenge thriller stuffed with twists and turns that ratchets up the stress scene by scene,” mentioned Protagonist CEO Dave Bishop. “Adam has assembled a very stellar forged to deliver his imaginative and prescient to life and his recent tackle a beloved style will resonate with audiences around the globe. It’s the proper addition to our Cannes slate.”
“I couldn’t be extra excited to be working with Protagonist and Dichotomy to deliver this audacious, crowd-pleasing, white knuckle thriller to the display screen,” added Scott. “I’d been in search of one thing to direct for years, and Double Booked checked all of the bins. Together with our unbelievable forged, I can’t wait to make it and share it with the world.”
Scott presently stars within the hit AppleTV+ collection Severance, for which he acquired an Emmy and Golden Globe nomination. He additionally starred within the seminal NBC collection Parks and Recreation, HBO’s Large Little Lies, and The Good Place.
Three-time Emmy winner Sterling Okay. Brown most just lately starred in Amazon/MGM’s American Fiction and is presently in manufacturing on the Hulu drama collection Paradise Metropolis. For six years he starred on NBC’s This Is Us, for which he received an Emmy Award for Excellent Lead Actor in a Drama Collection, in addition to a Golden Globe, turning into the primary African American actor to win his class within the award present’s 75-year historical past.
Beetz rose to fame in Donald Glover’s award-winning comedy-drama collection Atlanta. She can also be recognized for twentieth Century Fox’s Deadpool 2, starring Ryan Reynolds, Warner Bros. Footage’ Joker with Joaquin Phoenix and Robert De Niro, and its upcoming sequel Joker: Folie a Deux.
Daddario is finest recognized for her Emmy-nominated position in HBO’s hit collection The White Lotus. Up subsequent, she’s going to reprise her position as Rowan within the second season of AMC’s Mayfair Witches. Previous credit embody Warner Bros. Footage’ San Andreas reverse Dwayne Johnson, and Paramount Footage’ Baywatch, reverse Johnson and Zac Efron.
Scott is repped by UTA, Rise Administration and Johnson Shapiro; Sterling Okay. Brown is repped by CAA, JWS Leisure and Johnson Shapiro; Zazie Beets is repped by WME, Leisure 360 and Sloane, Provide, and Alexandra Daddario is repped by CAA, Untitled Leisure, and Jackoway Austen. David Levinson is repped by Chris Sablan at Avenue 220, Ashley Berns at Leigh Hill Administration, and David Jelenko at Lichter, Grossman.