Everything is set for Everything’s Going to Be Great, with cameras now rolling on the star-studded feature from Entertainment One (eOne) and Astute Films in Ontario.
BAFTA-nominated director Jon S. Baird (Stan & Ollie) is helming the drama, which eOne is co-financing, according to a news release. Overseeing production are eOne’s Jillian Share, Jen Gorton, and Courtney L. Cunniff, alongside L.A.-based Astute Films’ Fred Bernstein and Rick Jackson.
Filming began in North Bay, Ont., on Friday (April 21) and wraps at the end of May, a spokesperson tells Playback Daily.
Steven Rogers (I, Tonya) wrote the screenplay and is also producing alongside Clubhouse Pictures’ Bryan Unkeless (Hunger Games) and executive producer Scott Morgan. It’s their third collaboration together after I, Tonya and Hulu miniseries Mike.
Also producing is Alex Lalonde (The Desperate Hour) and executive producers Michael Souther and Teza Lawrence of Toronto prodco Amaze, which recently produced the second season of The Lake for Prime Video, said the release.
The cast of Everything’s Going to Be Great includes six-time Emmy winner Bryan Cranston (pictured left), Academy Award winner Allison Janney (pictured right), Benjamin Evan Ainsworth (Haunting of Bly Manor), and Jack Champion (Avatar: The Way of Water).
The film is “about individuality versus conformity, fantasy versus reality; but mostly, it’s about family,” said the release.
The story revolves around the Smart family who “move from one state to the next” as they cope “with loss and struggle with identity, all while performing in regional theatre.”
Baird is repped by CAA, Independent Talent Group, and Kristi Eddington and David Krintzman at Yorn Levine Barnes Krintzman Rubenstein Kohner Endlich & Gellman, LLP; Rogers is repped by The Gersh Agency, Gretchen Bruggeman Rush and Elena Grieco at Hansen, Jacobson, Teller, Hoberman, Newman, Warren, Richman, Rush, Kaller, Gellman, Meigs & Fox LLP; Cranston is repped by UTA; Janney is repped by CAA and Thruline Entertainment; Ainsworth is repped by CAA, Curtis Brown Group, and Alan Siegel Entertainment; and Champion is repped by CAA and Industry Entertainment.
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