By David Poland poland@moviecitynews.com
Drake Doremus’ Next
GREAT 37 minute EXCLUSIVE @ Deadline this morning…
But being pro-Drake around here, I’m running the press release anyway.
Untitled Drake Doremus Project
Bullet Points
§ Guy Pearce (THE KING’S SPEECH), Felicity Jones (LIKE CRAZY), and Amy Ryan (Academy Award nominee, GONE BABY GONE) are attached to star. Jones, who will be reteaming with Doremus for their second project together, recently won the Special Jury Prize for Acting, Dramatic Competition, for her work in Doremus’s LIKE CRAZY at this year’s Sundance Film Festival.
§ Drake Doremus and Ben York Jones wrote the screenplay. Their previous collaboration was LIKE CRAZY, which won the Grand Jury Prize at this year’s Sundance Film Festival.
§ Drake Doremus (LIKE CRAZY) will direct.
§ This is an original idea, and the story is under wraps. It will be a film about the nature of love and marriage. Production begins in August.
§ The producers are Jonathan Schwartz and Andrea Sperling from Super Crispy Entertainment and Steven Rales and Mark Roybal from Indian Paintbrush. Indian Paintbrush will also finance the film.
§ Indian Paintbrush co-acquired Doremus’ LIKE CRAZY with Paramount Pictures, who will be distributing the film this fall.
§ Project deals were negotiated by Indian Paintbrush’s Peter McPartlin, Doremus’ attorney Larry Kopeikin (Morris Yorn), and UTA’s Rich Klubeck and David Flynn.
§ Pearce is represented by CAA, and Jones is represented by CAA, Independent Talent in London, and Attorney Jodi Peikoff. Ryan is represented by The Gersh Agency and Attorney Dave Feldman (Bloom Hergott), and Doremus is represented by UTA.
Here are Drake, Felicity Jones, and Anton Yelchin talking about Like Crazy at Sundance this year…
And here are Drake and his writing partner, Ben York Jones, plus co-star Andrew Dickler, talking Douchebag…