The casting for the extremely anticipated darkish comedic thriller Based mostly on a True Story is ramping up.
Peacock introduced at this time that Chris Messina (Sharp Objects, I Care A Lot) will star reverse Kaley Cuoco (The Flight Attendant) within the thriller from Emmy Award-nominated Craig Rosenberg (The Boys, LOST, Preacher).
Messina will play Nathan. And that is all you are going to get, as all different particulars are being saved below wraps.
As was beforehand introduced, Cuoco will probably be taking part in a married lady named Ava Bartlett.
However this is what we do know.
The darkish comedic thriller is a couple of realtor, a plumber, and a former tennis star whose lives unexpectedly collide, exposing America’s obsession with true crime, homicide, and the sluggish shut bathroom seat.
I do not find out about you, however I can rely myself as considered one of America’s obsessed.
You most likely do the identical in the case of true crime and homicide.
And it’s best to surprise why anybody would nonetheless have an old style, slamming bathroom seat!
However I digress.
Jason Bateman (Ozark, The Outsider) will govt produce alongside Michael Costigan for Combination Movies.
Roxie Rodriguez serves as co-executive producer for Combination Movies. The sequence will probably be produced by UCP, a division of Common Studio Group.
Combination most just lately launched the fifth season of Ozark for Netflix; Beneath the Banner of Heaven for FX; A Trainer, starring Kate Mara and Nick Robinson; and The Outsider on HBO, starring Ben Mendelson and Cynthia Erivo.
Different upcoming tasks embody the Netflix romantic comedy Your Place or Mine, from writer-director Aline Brosh McKenna (The Satan Wears Prada), which can star Reese Witherspoon and Ashton Kutcher.
Additionally developing is the Apple TV+ restricted sequence Classes in Chemistry, starring Brie Larson; the Peacock comedy thriller starring Kaley Cuoco Based mostly On A True Story; and Netflix’s Florida Man sequence starring Edgar Ramirez.
As an actor, Bateman simply wrapped manufacturing on the Untitled Nike movie directed by Ben Affleck and can subsequent star with Taron Egerton within the movie Carry-On, a thriller for Netflix and Amblin.
Bateman can even direct and produce the characteristic movie “Darkish Wire” for Netflix.
Now, you may be irritated that there are so few particulars about Based mostly on a True Story, however we’re not.
The much less we all know, the extra seemingly we’re to be stunned and awed by the challenge.
What do you suppose?
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