Griffin Dunne, Rosanna Arquette & More Set For Noah Pritkzer Pic From Play Book Productions And Pimienta Films
deadline.comEXCLUSIVE: Griffin Dunne (This Is Us), Rosanna Arquette (Pulp Fiction), Richard Benjamin (Michael Crichton’s Westworld), Miles Heizer (13 Reasons Why) and James Norton (Little Women) will lead the cast of an as-yet-untitled film from writer-director Noah Pritzker (Quitters).Others joining the ensemble include Eisa Davis (Mare of Easttown), Marcia Jean Kurtz (If Beale Street Could Talk), John Ventimiglia (The Sopranos), Lou Taylor Pucci (You), Echo Kellum (Grand Crew), Ian Owens (Shrill), Pedro Fontaine (Spider), Simon Van Buyten (Chaussée d’Amour), Nate Mann (Licorice Pizza), Zora Casebere (On the Rocks) and Rachel Zeiger-Haag (Monsterland).The film from Play Book Productions and Pimienta Films—marking Pritzker’s follow-up to the 2015 dramedy, Quitters—will center on Dunne’s character, Peter Pearce.
Overwhelmed by his pending divorce from Maria (Arquette) and the declining health of his father (Benjamin), Peter plans a getaway to Tulum, insistent he knows nothing of his sons’ (Heizer and Norton) plans to be there at the same time for a bachelor party.The film shooting on location in Tulum and New York City was cast by Emmy nominee Douglas Aibel (The Staircase).
Academy Award winner Bruce Cohen (American Beauty) will produce through his company Play Book Productions, alongside Nicolás Celis of Pimienta Films (Birds of Passage) and Alexandra Byer of Rathaus Films (De Lo Mio).Dunne is an Oscar-, Emmy- and Golden Globe-nominated actor and filmmaker recently seen playing Nicky Pearson on NBC’s This Is Us, and on Prime Video’s Goliath.
Also coming up for the multi-hyphenate is the drama Junction with Sophia Bush, Michaela Conlin and Jamie Chung.Arquette is an Emmy nominee who starred alongside Dunne in Martin Scorsese’s After
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