Annie Baker, the Pulitzer Prize-winning playwright and director of 2023’s “Janet Planet,” has set her subsequent function movie, once more teaming with A24, as a person with data of the undertaking instructed IndieWire.
Baker’s movie is known as “Historical Historical past,” which she wrote and can direct, and A24 has already set Sophia Lillis (“I Am Not Okay With This,” “It”) and Daniel Zolghadri (“Humorous Pages,” “Eighth Grade,” “If I Had Legs I’d Kick You”) to star within the movie.
Plot particulars are being saved underneath wraps.
Producing “Historical Historical past” are Andrew Goldman by way of Current Firm, in addition to Johnny Holland and Baker.
“Janet Planet” first premiered at Telluride in 2023, and whereas the movie had a really small specialised field workplace that didn’t cross $1 million, it earned Baker two Movie Unbiased Spirit Award nominations for Finest First Characteristic and Finest First Screenplay, in addition to a Gotham Award nomination for Finest Screenplay. The movie starred Julianne Nicholson and newcomer Zoe Ziegler as a mom and daughter dwelling in rural Massachusetts. IndieWire’s evaluate known as it a outstanding transition from a “heralded playwright into main cinematic voice.”
Baker is greatest recognized for her play “The Flick” from 2013, which gained her a Pulitzer Prize and an Obie Award for Playwriting.
Baker is represented by UTA. Lillis is represented by CAA, Untitled Leisure, and Ryan Levine. Zolghadri is represented by UTA and Circle Administration + Manufacturing.
Deadline first reported the information.