Josh Safdie and Benny Safdie are returning to the realm of underground luxurious gross sales.
The “Uncut Gems” filmmakers are set to govt produce Peacock collection “Superfakes,” which facilities on a small-time Chinatown luxury-counterfeit supplier who enters a harmful black market underworld with a view to fund a lifetime of suburban respectability for her household.
“Beef” Emmy Award-winning co-executive producer Alice Ju is the creator, author, showrunner, and govt producer of “Superfakes.” Ju continues her partnership with Peacock alongside her work on fellow crime drama collection “Poker Face.”
“Superfakes” can be govt produced by Howard Klein (“The Workplace,” “Parks and Recreation”) and Olivia Gerke (“Fantasmas”) for 3 Arts, Ronald Bronstein, and Eli Bush.
“Superfakes” hails from A24 and UCP, a division of Common Studio Group. A24, Josh Safdie, and Benny Safdie have collaborated on a slew of initiatives, together with acclaimed Showtime collection “The Curse.”
Josh Safdie is subsequent directing “Marty Supreme” for A24. Timothée Chalamet, Gwyneth Paltrow, and Tyler, The Creator star within the ping-pong characteristic. “Marty Supreme” is Josh Safdie’s first movie since “Uncut Gems”; he did direct an Adam Sandler Netflix stand-up comedy particular, titled “Adam Sandler: Love You,” in 2024. Josh Safdie cowrote the script for “Marty Supreme” with frequent producing associate Ronald Bronstein, who is also an govt producer on “Superfakes.”
In the meantime, Benny Safdie is helming “The Smashing Machine” with Dwayne Johnson portraying MMA fighter Mark Kerr. He additionally will make a cameo in “Glad Gilmore 2” alongside “Uncut Gems” alum Sandler.
“He’s going to have a juicy half in that,” Sandler teased to IndieWire. “So it’s enjoyable to be [back] with these guys.”
Sandler additionally stated that the slated sports activities pic, which can embrace scenes shot at a reside baseball sport, presumably MLB, was co-written by Benny Safdie and Josh Safdie, would possibly nonetheless be within the works. Sandler, Chalamet, and Megan Thee Stallion have been rumored to star within the untitled Netflix movie that Josh Safdie was going to direct on his us. The characteristic was set on this planet of sports activities memorabilia however was placed on maintain because of the SAG-AFTRA strikes.
“It’s one thing that we talked about at this time,” Sandler informed IndieWire. “It’s hopefully going to return again. It’s loopy, it’s a cool script, very lengthy. Josh doesn’t cease working arduous.”