Meg Ryan To Direct & Star Alongside David Duchovny In Rom-Com ‘What Happens Later’; Bleecker Street Takes U.S. – Cannes Market
deadline.comMeg Ryan is set to direct and star alongside David Duchovny in romantic comedy What Happens Later, a film based on Steven Dietz’s play Shooting Star.Bleecker Street has picked up U.S.
rights to the title and is planning a 2023 theatrical release while HanWay Films has boarded international sales and is launching the title at Cannes this month.Story follows ex-lovers Willa (Ryan) and Bill (Duchovny) who are reunited for the first time since their split decades prior when they both find themselves snowed in, in-transit, at an airport overnight.
Willa is still the wilful, independent spirt she once was, free of any ties. Bill, recently separated, is reassessing his life and his relationships with his estranged wife and daughter.
All each wants is to get home but over the course of the night they find themselves at first reluctantly drawn together yet compelled to revisit their past, along with what could have been and what might be again.
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