MGM and Brad Pitt’s Plan B Entertainment together with Dede Gardner and Jeremy Kleiner have signed a two-year, re-examination movie manufacturing deal, and the studios have set two movies from the administrators of each “Minari” and “Bad Education” as a part of the deal.
Lee Isaac Chung of “Minari” will direct an untitled love story, and “Bad Education” director Cory Finley will direct an adaptation of the National Book Award winner “Landscape With Invisible Hand” from creator M.T. Anderson.
Both movies will probably be launched theatrically within the U.S. through MGM’s distribution and advertising and marketing three way partnership United Artists Releasing.
Chung’s film is an unique and sweeping love story a few younger man misplaced in New York City’s company drudgery who finds love with an exquisite younger lady from Hong Kong, solely to interrupt up together with her out of worry of settling down. Feeling misplaced in life, he units out on a madcap quest to seek out himself, which leads him to comprehend he had already discovered real love in her. When he goes again to seek out her, he learns it’s too late — she’s gone, and now he should go to Hong Kong, on the best journey of all, to get her again.
The movie will probably be produced by Gardner, Kleiner and Christina Oh of Plan B, who all produced “Minari,” which gained the Grand Jury Prize and Audience Award at Sundance this 12 months and is a giant contender within the Oscar race.
“Landscape With Invisible Hand” is Finley’s follow-up to his Emmy-winning “Bad Education” starring Hugh Jackman and to “Thoroughbreds” starring Anya Taylor-Joy. The guide is a darkish, surreal comedy set in a deeply stratified, alien future.
“We are incredibly thrilled to have Brad, Dede, and Jeremy join the MGM family. Their decades-long commitment advocating for a filmmaker’s vision knows no equal. All of us at MGM are excited to join with them in bringing these incredible filmmaker’s visions to life and to be a home for theirs and so many singular voices who are making movies today and, in the years, to come,” Michael De Luca, MGM’s movie group chairman, and Pamela Abdy, MGM’s movie group president, mentioned in a joint assertion.
“We very much look forward to working with Mike, Pam and the MGM team as we head into the next decade with our company. We are equally thrilled to be working again with Lee Isaac, and to collaborate with Cory, and to join with MGM in sharing their uniquely original films with audiences the world over,” Plan B mentioned in a press release.
MGM and Plan B most not too long ago introduced a function movie adaption of Ta-Nehisi Coates’ “The Water Dancer,” which will probably be produced by Plan B, Harpo Films and Kamilah Forbes, in addition to the subsequent movie from director Sarah Polley, an adaptation of Miriam Toews’ novel “Women Talking” that can star and be produced by Frances McDormand.
Plan B’s different latest releases embrace John Stewart’s “Irresistible,” Miranda July’s “Kajillionaire” and Lee Isaac Chung’s “Minari,” which obtained a restricted launch this month however will open wider on Feb. 12, 2021.
Chung is represented by CAA. Finley is represented by CAA and Mosaic.
