Jonathan Dayton & Valerie Faris To Helm FilmNation Remake ‘The People Upstairs;’ Rashida Jones & Will McCormack Scripting
deadline.comEXCLUSIVE: The directing team of Jonathan Dayton and Valerie Faris (Little Miss Sunshine) will direct The People Upstairs, a film that will be financed by FilmNation.
Rashida Jones & Will McCormack wrote the script. David Permut will produce with FilmNation. Production is planned for later this year.The film is an English-language remake of Sentimental, the Goya-winning Spanish film that premiered in TIFF in 2020.
Permut (Hacksaw Ridge and Face/Off) picked up the rights shortly after seeing it there. Dayton & Faris are very particular about their projects.
They last directed the Billie Jean King Bobby Riggs film Battle of the Sexes.The film is about a middle-aged couple who is feeling stagnant in their relationship and invite the younger and livelier couple from the apartment upstairs for a get-together that takes an unexpected turn.
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