Searchlight’s ‘Suncoast’ Adds Ella Anderson, Daniella Perkins, Amarr & Ariel Martin
deadline.comEXCLUSIVE: Laura Chinn’s teenage movie Suncoast starring Laura Linney, Woody Harrelson and Nico Parker has added Ella Anderson, Daniella Perkins, Amarr and Ariel Martin.Suncoast is inspired by Chinn’s life experience from the early aughts and follows a teenager (Parker) living with her strong-willed mother (Linney), who must take her brother to live at a specialized facility.
There, she strikes up an unlikely friendship with an eccentric activist (Harrelson) amidst protests surrounding one of the most landmark medical cases of all time.Chinn is currently directing off her 2020 Black List script in Charleston, SC.
Producers are Jeremy Plager, Francesca Silvestri, Kevin Chinoy and Oly Obst. EPs are Chris Stinson and Amy Greene with Anna Schwartz co-producing.The project is overseen by Searchlight SVP of Production Taylor Friedman and Manager of Creative Affairs Daniel Yu, reporting to Heads of Production and Development DanTram Nguyen and Katie Goodson-Thomas.Anderson has starred in Destin Daniel Cretton’s The Glass Castle alongside Brie Larson, Harrelson and Naomi Watts; Ben Falcone’s The Boss with Melissa McCarthy; and Garry Marshall’s Mother’s Day.
She is a multiple Kids’ Choice Award nominee for her role in CBS’s superhero comedy television series Henry Danger. Anderson is represented by Gilbertson Entertainment and Yorn, Levine, Barnes, Krintzman, Rubenstein, Kohner, Endlich & Gellman.Perkins most recently starred in ABC’s Grown-ish and Red Ruby for Brat.
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