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This week’s roundup of who’s casting what starring whom
What’s Casting
Not Just Another Love Story
By Rebecca Welch
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A fan favorite is finally getting its long-awaited sequel from Hulu. “How I Met Your Father” won’t be reviving past characters from its predecessor, CBS’s “How I Met Your Mother”; rather, it will establish a completely new love story. The series will follow Sophie, a woman recounting the events that led to her meeting her teenage son’s father. The flashbacks, set to start in the year 2021, make up a majority of the series, following Sophie and her friends as they navigate life and love in the digital era. Hilary Duff will lead the series, which has received a 10-episode order, and Seth Yanklewitz is attaching the rest of the cast. No other talent has been announced for the project, co-created by Isaac Aptaker and Elizabeth Berger. Production is set to start at the beginning of August in Los Angeles.
Netflix is looking to rebrand the Florida Man. Taking the meme-ified term that’s used to relay news of often unbelievable stories from the Sunshine State as its starting point, the Jason Bateman–produced series will show the dark side of the titular figure. “Florida Man” will follow an ex-cop chasing down a Philadelphia mobster’s girlfriend who has run away to Florida, which is the protagonist’s home state. Coming back, however, presents its own challenges, as he gets pulled along a dark path full of family secrets. Ronna Kress is casting the project, created by Donald Todd, which recently announced Edgar Ramírez as its star. The production will head to Wilmington, North Carolina, in mid-August to start shooting its eight episodes.
“Hamilton” alum Phillipa Soo will play a woman facing a difficult decision in the upcoming film “One True Loves.” The project, based on the Taylor Jenkins Reid novel of the same name, will find a would-be widow trapped in an impossible situation when, after finding new love with her fiancé, the husband she believed to be dead for years returns alive. Joining Soo in the drama are actors Simu Liu and Luke Bracey. Sarah Finn is casting the film from director Andy Fickman. Production on the literary adaptation is set to start in early September in Massachusetts.
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FILM
A Starry New Project for Todd Haynes
By Casey Mink
TODD HAYNES IS REUNITING WITH A
tried-and-true muse—and is gaining a new one, too. The filmmaker and Oscar winner Julianne Moore will reteam for “May December,” which Haynes plans to take to Cannes. Fellow Academy Award winner Natalie Portman will also star in the film, collaborating with Haynes for the first time. The film, a psychodrama featuring a screenplay by Samy Burch and a story by Burch and Alex Mechanik, is slated to begin principal photography next year.
