EXCLUSIVE: DeWanda Wise is set to join the ensemble cast of Chris Pine’s directorial debut Poolman. She joins a cast that already includes Pine, Annette Bening, Danny DeVito and Jennifer Jason Leigh.Stuart Ford’s AGC Studios is fully financing the project, which it launched at EFM earlier this year.
CAA Media Finance is co-representing the film’s domestic rights with AGC.Pine directs from a script he co-write with Ian Gotler.
Pine plays Darren Barrenman, a hapless dreamer and would be philosopher who spends his days looking after the pool of the Tahitian Tiki apartment block in sunny Los Angeles and crashing city council meetings with his neighbors Jack and Diane (DeVito and Bening).
When Barrenman uncovers the greatest water heist in LA history since Chinatown he makes uneasy alliances with a beautiful and connected femme fatale while following every lead he can with corrupt city officials, burned out Hollywood types and mysterious benefactors – all in the name of protecting his precious Los Angeles.Pine produces with Stacey Sher and Patty Jenkins.
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