Meg Ryan is about to direct her second function and returning to the style she’s finest identified for. The “Sleepless in Seattle” and “When Harry Met Sally…” actress will star in and helm “What Occurs Later,” per Selection. Described as an “advanced and nostalgic” tackle the romantic comedy, the pic is slated for a 2023 theatrical launch from Bleecker Road.
“What Occurs Later” follows ex-lovers Willa (Ryan) and Invoice (David Duchovny), “who’re reunited for the primary time since their cut up many years prior once they each discover themselves snowed in, in-transit, at an airport in a single day. Willa continues to be the willful, unbiased spirit she as soon as was, freed from any ties, whereas the lately separated Invoice is reassessing his life and his relationships together with his estranged spouse and daughter,” the supply teases. “All every of them desires is to get house however over the course of the evening they discover themselves at first reluctantly drawn collectively but compelled to revisit their previous, together with what may have been and what may nicely be once more. However when the variations of their shared historical past don’t fairly add up, the place do they go from there?”
Manufacturing is scheduled to kick off later this 12 months.
Bleecker Road CEO Andrew Karpen emphasised that the corporate is “past lucky that the mission is within the fingers of one of the vital gifted romantic comedy actors of her era.”
Ryan made her directorial debut with 2015’s “Ithaca,” a coming-of-age drama set throughout WWII. She had a supporting function within the movie.
A trailer simply landed for an additional actress’ sophomore directorial effort, Olivia Wilde’s “Don’t Fear Darling.” Florence Pugh stars within the thriller, which marks Wilde’s follow-up to “Booksmart.”
Supply: Women And Hollywood