EXCLUSIVE: Linda Hamilton (The Terminator) and Abbie Cornish (Three Billboards) have come aboard to star reverse Kal Penn in Belief Me, I’m a Physician, a brand new movie from writer-director Thane Economou (The Marriage ceremony Occasion) that may launch gross sales on the Cannes Market.
UTA Unbiased Movie Group is dealing with home rights, and Fortitude Worldwide overseeing worldwide.
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Pic relies on the memoir of Dr. Sandeep Kapoor (Penn), whose life is turned the other way up when he’s implicated within the loss of life of his former affected person — mannequin, actress, and actuality TV star, Anna Nicole Smith. The movie takes place on the top of early 2000s tabloid tradition and explores the intersection of fame, privateness, self-discovery and politics via the angle of a person who wound up pressured into the highlight via the courtroom of public opinion.
Cornish will play the late Anna Nicole Smith, with Hamilton as Ellyn Garafalo, the veteran lawyer who served as Dr. Kapoor’s lifeline and authorized counsel all through the drug conspiracy trial. Presently in manufacturing, the movie’s solid additionally contains David Julian Hirsh (Jupiter’s Legacy), Al Sapienza (The Sopranos), Eric Woolfe (Fatman), Charlotte Ubben (The Novice), and Dhirendra (A Good Indian Boy).
Producers on Belief Me, I’m a Physician embody Ryan Hawkins (STADIUM), Al Engemann (Image Movers Nameless), Rebecca Case, and Geenah Krisht (Good Good Movies), in affiliation with RBF Productions. Manufacturing companies are being dealt with by Spy Movies out of Ontario. Penn is exec producing alongside Dan Spilo and David Gale.
“Everyone knows the tragic story of the enduring Anna Nicole Smith, however only a few of us – myself included – knew a lot about her younger physician: flamboyant, old fashioned, blurring the strains between affected person and acquaintance, and in the end arrested and charged following her loss of life,” mirrored Penn in a press release to Deadline. “It’s a wild story dropped at life in an particularly great script.”
Added Cornish, “Enjoying Anna Nicole Smith is such a dream. I’m honored to have been chosen by our superb producers and proficient author/director, Thane Economou. And I’m so excited to work with our unimaginable solid and crew. I’m blessed to face alongside the charismatic and gifted Kal Penn and inform the story of this second in historical past. There are such a lot of layers and chapters to Anna’s life story that I look ahead to embodying on display screen with all of my coronary heart and soul. Really grateful.”
Finest identified for her iconic function of Sarah Connor within the Terminator franchise, Hamilton will subsequent be seen starring within the extremely anticipated last season of Netflix’s Stranger Issues.
Identified for turns in Martin McDonagh’s Three Billboards Exterior Ebbing, Missouri and Seven Psychopaths, amongst different movies, Cornish is coming off a job reverse John Krasinski on the Prime Video sequence Tom Clancy’s Jack Ryan.
Cornish is represented by Shanahan Administration in Australia, The Artists Partnership within the UK, and Atlas Artists; Hamilton by Revolutionary Artists; Hirsh by Oscars Abrams Zimel & Associates; Sapienza by Zero Gravity Administration, SDB Companions, Folks Retailer and The Characters Expertise Company; Woolfe by Oldfield Expertise Administration; Ubben by UTA; and Dhirendra by Roger Carey Associates, The Characters Expertise Company, and EKG Expertise Group.
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