The romantic comedy is dead. Long live the romantic comedy. There is a speed to the dialogue and action in Set It Up, directed by Claire Scanlon, that speaks to its overall success. From minute one this thing moves, establishing what it needs to quickly and moving right along to the cute stuff. Harper (Zoey Deutch) is an assistant for Kirsten Stevens (Lucy Liu), a cutthroat sportswriter now running a high-profile website, in the same building that Charlie (Glen Powell) works for Rick Otis (Taye Diggs), a financial whiz with a pronounced temper and impending divorce.
Once the two underlings meet, they devise a plan to get their two workaholic bosses together so they will regain some freedom in their lives. This is the kind of high-concept concept that fueled most of the studio rom-coms in the 90s, igniting the careers of people named Julia, Sandra and, yes, Taye! Smartly,...
Once the two underlings meet, they devise a plan to get their two workaholic bosses together so they will regain some freedom in their lives. This is the kind of high-concept concept that fueled most of the studio rom-coms in the 90s, igniting the careers of people named Julia, Sandra and, yes, Taye! Smartly,...
- 6/22/2018
- by Dan Mecca
- The Film Stage
Lucy Liu is joining the cast of the upcoming Netflix comedy Set It Up. The series will be directed by Claire Scanlon and Liu joins the previously cast Zoey Deutch, Glen Powell, and Taye Diggs. Liu will play a rough and tough character named Kirsten Stevens described as “an intimidating, no-nonsense, extremely successful sports reporter.”
Deadline broke the casting news and describes the plot of the film:
"The film follows the story of two overworked and underpaid assistants, Harper and Charlie, (Deutch and Powell) who are wasting their 20’s working for superiors who treat them like dirt and work them ’round the clock. Harper and Charlie commiserate with each other about their crazy bosses (Liu and Diggs) and realize that they would have much more free time if the people they worked for weren’t single. They concoct a plan to solve their problem by setting up their respective bosses with each other.
Deadline broke the casting news and describes the plot of the film:
"The film follows the story of two overworked and underpaid assistants, Harper and Charlie, (Deutch and Powell) who are wasting their 20’s working for superiors who treat them like dirt and work them ’round the clock. Harper and Charlie commiserate with each other about their crazy bosses (Liu and Diggs) and realize that they would have much more free time if the people they worked for weren’t single. They concoct a plan to solve their problem by setting up their respective bosses with each other.
- 6/18/2017
- by Kristian Odland
- GeekTyrant
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