EXCLUSIVE: Director Chandler Levack (I Like Motion pictures) has locked a starry solid for Roommates, a brand new ensemble comedy for Netflix. The decision sheet will embrace Sarah Sherman (Saturday Evening Reside), Natasha Lyonne (Poker Face), Nick Kroll (Huge Mouth), Sadie Sandler (You Are So Not Invited to My Bat Mitzvah), Chloe East (Heretic), and Storm Reid (The Final of Us).
Within the movie penned by Jimmy Fowlie and Ceara O’Sullivan of SNL, a hopeful, naive school freshman, Devon, asks the cool and assured Celeste to be her roommate, seeing a blossoming friendship spiral thereafter right into a conflict of passive aggression. No phrase but on who’s producing.
Levack is a writer-director whose critically acclaimed coming-of-age dramedy I Like Motion pictures premiered on the Toronto Movie Pageant in 2022. Extra not too long ago, she wrote and directed Mile Finish Kicks, an upcoming rom-com set in opposition to Montreal’s indie music scene of 2011, which stars Jay Baruchel, Devon Bostick, Barbie Ferreira, Stanley Simons, and extra. She is repped by WME, Artists First, and Gang, Tyre, Ramer.
Each Fowlie and O’Sullivan have earned a number of Emmy and WGA Award nominations for his or her work as writers on Saturday Evening Reside. O’Sullivan beforehand co-wrote and starred within the podcast collection Petty Crimes, with Fowlie showing in reveals like English Instructor, The Different Two (on which he was additionally a part of the writing workers), and Search Celebration. Fowlie is repped by WME, Mosaic, and Ginsburb Daniels Kallis; O’Sullivan by UTA, Ayala Cohen Administration, and Bloch Legislation.
Sherman is repped by UTA, Rise Administration, and Hansen, Jacobson, Teller; Lyonne by CAA, Untitled Leisure, and Schreck Rose Dapello; Kroll by UTA, Rise Administration, and Schreck Rose Dapello; Sandler by WME; East by WME, Hyperlink Leisure, Vault Leisure, and Felker Toczek Suddleson; and Reid by CAA, Leisure 360, and Granderson Des Rochers.
On the movie facet, Netflix has additionally not too long ago introduced solid for titles like Don’t Say Good Luck, Unabom, the Kevin Hart comedy 72 Hours, and David Fincher’s The Adventures of Cliff Sales space, to call just some.