Jesse Eisenberg is already confirmed for his third directorial function, and this time, he’s swapping dramedy for a full-on musical comedy, simply in time for IndieWire’s Musicals Week.
The yet-untitled mission reunites author/director Eisenberg with Julianne Moore, who starred in his debut function “When You End Saving the World.” The movie will even be Eisenberg’s third with Emma Stone, Dave McCary, and Ali Herting’s Fruit Tree manufacturing banner.
Moore is about to star as a shy girl who’s unexpectedly solid in a neighborhood manufacturing of an authentic musical, in line with the logline. “Underneath the spell of the strong-willed and enigmatic director (Paul Giamatti), she loses herself within the position and the high-stakes world of this neighborhood theater manufacturing.”
Eisenberg’s “A Actual Ache” lately debuted in theaters on November 1. Eisenberg co-starred in his sophomore movie alongside Kieran Culkin; the duo play a pair of cousins who journey by means of Poland in honor of their late grandmother. The function debuted at Sundance 2024, the place Eisenberg received the Waldo Salt Screenwriting Award.
Eisenberg lately stated throughout IndieWire’s Filmmaker Toolkit podcast that he has realized learn how to totally deliver extra well-rounded characters from the web page to the display screen as a author/director throughout his two options so far.
“I used to be like, ‘Oh, okay, the audiences will not be in my head,’ so I’ve to make the additional effort to a minimum of point out who’s good, who’s dangerous, who’re we listening to, who’re we following,” Eisenberg stated of studying from his debut “When You End Saving the World.” “Even when that signifies that [the characters] are doing one thing transgressive, even when which means the characters are doing one thing distasteful, nonetheless [I just need] to floor it in, ‘What are we watching right here? What are the foundations of this world?’ And possibly I didn’t try this properly sufficient.”
He continued of follow-up “A Actual Ache,” “So with this film, I actually was simply making an attempt to ensure we all know who these persons are, in a form of acquainted means, in a means that’s accessible, and ensuring we all know that even throughout their moments of dangerous conduct, they’re feeling one thing.”
For Eisenberg’s third movie, he developed the mission with Fruit Tree and Subject Studios, which is totally financing it. Manufacturing is about to start in early 2025. Eisenberg will direct from his personal script; he’s additionally contributing authentic music to the movie.
CAA Media Finance and WME Unbiased are dealing with distribution rights.
“The Holdovers” actor Giamatti has been on a casting streak post-second Oscar nomination. He’ll seem in Eli Roth’s “Hostel” collection in addition to “Black Mirror” Season 7, “Star Trek: Starfleet Academy,” and the third “Downton Abbey” movie.
Moore co-leads Tilda Swinton in Sony Footage Classics’ drama Pedro Almodóvar’s “The Room Subsequent Door” alongside Tilda Swinton. The movie shall be launched December 20 in theaters.
Deadline first reported the mission.