EXCLUSIVE: Audra McDonald (The Gilded Age), Okay. Todd Freeman (The Horror of Dolores Roach), Mary-Louise Parker (Weeds), Richard Form (Solely Murders within the Constructing) and Ben Vereen (All That Jazz) have been set to topline The Public sale, a brand new indie from writer-director William Atticus Parker.
Described by the filmmaker as “a office drama with parts of fantasy and horror,” the movie is a free adaptation of Agatha Christie’s And Then There Have been None. Additional plot particulars are being stored below wraps.
The son of Mary-Louise Parker, William may also make his function appearing debut in The Public sale and produce alongside Sabina Friedman-Seitz (Atrabilious) and Cory Asinofsky. William’s sister, Ash Parker, will write and compose an authentic track for the pic, with manufacturing to kick off in New York this summer season.
At present starring on HBO’s The Gilded Age, which has been renewed for a 3rd season, McDonald can be recognized for activates collection like The Good Struggle and Non-public Observe. Notable current function credit embrace Rustin, Respect, and Magnificence and the Beast.
Most just lately seen starring on Prime Video’s The Horror of Dolores Roach, Freeman previous to that was seen on Netflix’s A Sequence of Unlucky Occasions. Movie credit for him embrace Pirates of the Caribbean: Lifeless Males Inform No Tales, Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles, and The Darkish Evening, to call only a few.
Finest recognized for her Emmy- and Golden Globe-winning position in Showtime’s Weeds, Mary-Louise Parker most just lately signed on to star in Justine Bateman’s indie Face and MGM+’s collection adaptation of Stephen King’s The Institute.
A veteran character actor most just lately seen in John Mulaney Presents: All people’s in LA, the acclaimed selection collection placed on throughout Netflix Is a Joke Fest 2024, Form will subsequent be seen within the fourth season of Hulu’s Solely Murders within the Constructing.
A Tony Award winner, in addition to a a number of Emmy and Golden Globe nominee, Vereen is greatest recognized on the movie entrance for his flip in Bob Fosse’s 1979 basic All That Jazz. Just lately seen on collection like B Optimistic and The Good Struggle, he’ll subsequent seem within the historic drama collection The Grey Home from EPs Kevin Costner and Morgan Freeman.
The Public sale marks the third function from the 20-year-old Parker, whose sophomore function Atrabilious, starring Leon Addison Brown, Whoopi Goldberg, Alec Baldwin, and Jeffrey Wright, is presently in post-production. Beforehand, he made his function directorial debut with the darkly comedic psychological thriller Forty Winks, which like Atrabilious, was shot in New York Metropolis on a micro-budget.
William Atticus Parker and Mary-Louise Parker are repped by CAA and Untitled Leisure. McDonald is repped by WME; Freeman by Modern Artists and D2 Administration; Form by Modern Artists and Forster Leisure; and Vereen by The Suchin Firm.