EXCLUSIVE: Rosario Dawson (Ahsoka), Lamorne Morris (Fargo), Joshua Jackson (The Affair), Stephen Root (Barry) and Edi Patterson (The Righteous Gemstones) are joining Meghann Fahy and Glenn Howerton in movie The Girlfriend.
As we told you last week, Natalie Morales is directing for XYZ Films from a Glenn Howerton and Rich Appel (Family Guy) script. Production is currently underway with Dawson joining as a co-lead.
The logline reads: “Eve (Dawson) gives up her perfect New York City life and moves to Alabama for her husband Elliot’s (Howerton) dream job. Seeing her isolated, friendless, and unhappy, Elliot does what any loving husband would do: he secretly hires an escort (Fahy) to be her new best friend.”
XYZ Films is financing and producing in association with BuzzFeed Studios with backing from IPR.VC and Vixens with support from the European Union under the InvestEU Fund.
Shawn Levy and Dan Levine are producing for 21 Laps, along with Jill Howerton and Glenn Howerton from Zoe Knife Productions, Rich Appel from Persons Unknown, Guy Danella and Nick Spicer from XYZ Films, Richard Alan Reid from Buzzfeed Studios and Lee Kim.
XYZ is handling global sales, with WME co-repping domestic
Executive producers include Josh Kunau, Maxime Cottray, Aram Tertzakian, Andrea Scarso, Timo Argillander, John Straley, R. Wesley Sierk, Gary Farkas, Clement Lepoutre, Olivier Muller and Bertrand Perrodo. Emily Feher from 21 Laps will also have a producing role.
Dawson is repped by CAA and Untitled Entertainment. Morris is repped by CAA and Entertainment 360. Jackson is repped by CAA, Anonymous Content and Hansen, Jacobson. Root is repped by Gersh Agency and Brillstein Entertainment Partners. Patterson is repped by CAA and Range Media Partners.
