Sean Durkin Changing wrestling for romance.
The “Iron Claw” director will write and control the functioning of the novel “Deep cut. ” Ronan Stewart and Austin Butler will live together film It centers on a love story between two music-obsessed twenty-venethings as they navigate in the messy reality of ambition, belonging and adulthood in the 21st century. Both Ronan and Butler are Oscar-nominated actors.
Indieview can confirm the feature. Deadline first reported the project.
“Deep Cuts” is Holly Brickley’s debut novel, which was published on February 25. Durkin will both direct and adapt the book, with the co -leading star Ronan produces. Centrals Ronald Bronstein, Eli Bush and Josh Safdie also produce A24.
Durkins “The Iron Claw” was among Highest gross A24 films 2023. He repped by UTA and Entertainment 360.
“Deep Cuts” is not Durkin’s first move to music -centric features: The “Martha Marcy May Marlene” filmmakers would directing a Janis Joplin Biopic In the lead role Michelle Williams 2016. Tony-winning actress Nina Arianda was previously set to the lead role around 2012.
The “Deep Cuts” star Ronan recently led “Blitz”, as well as memorate adaptation “The Outrun”, as she Also produced. Ronan told IndieWires Kate Eriden that she hopes to start in a musical, ideally written by her “Little Women” and “Lady Bird” director Greta Gerwig.
“I’ve always wanted to do a musical,” Ronan said 2024. “Many people say they want Greta to write a musical and we will do it together. I think it would be really fun.”
She added, “I also have an eye on the fact that I have made many independent pictures, which I love, but I don’t just want to be pigeon as” the indie girl. “I also want to do the big things. (…) It doesn’t mean they have to be” high -edge “necessarily, but only I needed to connect them and I needed to feel they were worth it.”
Ronan continued with how she chooses roles, “The older I get and the richer is my personal life, the more consideration I have to add to a job. I am very, very lucky that I am in the position where I can afford to say yes or no to a job, and I am very aware of it. But it must be something that I think is worth my energy. I think the older I get, the more experienced I am, the more I want to be shot, the more I want to be stretched as an actor. It has always been there, but I feel like the more of a skill you have, the more you want to be tested. ”
She repped by CAA and relevant.
At the same time, Butler had a whole 2024 slate with the series “The Masters of Air” and movies “Dune: Part Two” and “The Bikers.” He will also show up in Darren Aronofsky’s “captured steal” and Ari Aster’s “Eddington.” The actor is rumored that Michael Mann’s “Heat 2” revolves with Adam Driver and was Was announced as the leadership of Luca Guadagninos “American Psycho” conversionAlthough the status of that function is unknown. Butler repped by WME, Brillstein Entertainment Partners, Sloane, Offer, Weber & Dern and Lede Company.
