Rivulet Films Co-Heads Rob Paris & Mike Witherill Talk Fully-Financing David Gordon Green’s TIFF Opener ‘Nutcrackers’ With Ben Stiller
deadline.comEXCLUSIVE: One year ago in Toronto, with the dual writers’ and actors’ strikes still in full swing, Rivulet Films co-founders Rob Paris and Mike Witherill were in the throes of packaging a project with David Gordon Green attached to direct a WGA script.
Unable to secure an interim agreement to get the go ahead, that project fell apart. But all was not lost because the next day, Green called Paris and had a non-WGA script for him that he wanted to direct but they had to move fast because the director had a Q1 2024 commitment.
That project was a script from Green’s friend Leland Douglas called Nutcrackers about Mike, a straight-laced workaholic who has to travel to rural Ohio to care for his four nephews after their parents die in a car accident.
After weeks of farm-life mayhem, Mike realizes he won’t have to find a new home for the orphaned children – they found a home for him.
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