Exclusive: How I Met Your Mother director Pamela Fryman and actress Ashley Williams, Margin Call producer Neal Dodson and producer Alan Grossbard are teaming up on an adaptation of the Penguin Random House-published memoir Killing It: An Education.
Fryman, who directed all but 12 of the 208 episodes of Fox’s hit comedy How I Met Your Mother, will direct the feature adaptation of Camas Davis’s memoir, which is due to star Williams.
The memoir follows Davis’s journey from unemployed journalist to France where she entrenches herself in the world of an artisan butcher community and then back to Portland, Oregon which was in the throes of a food revolution.
The team has also acquired screen life rights to Davis who will serve as a producer and consultant on the project.
The book inspired actress Williams to write, direct and star in Sundance short Meats which centers on a vegan...
Fryman, who directed all but 12 of the 208 episodes of Fox’s hit comedy How I Met Your Mother, will direct the feature adaptation of Camas Davis’s memoir, which is due to star Williams.
The memoir follows Davis’s journey from unemployed journalist to France where she entrenches herself in the world of an artisan butcher community and then back to Portland, Oregon which was in the throes of a food revolution.
The team has also acquired screen life rights to Davis who will serve as a producer and consultant on the project.
The book inspired actress Williams to write, direct and star in Sundance short Meats which centers on a vegan...
- 1/27/2020
- by Andreas Wiseman
- Deadline Film + TV
Look up "heart" in the dictionary and you might just see a photo of Sean Astin. Or at least one of the characters he's best known for playing, like Mikey ("The Goonies"), Rudy ("Rudy") or Sam ("The Lord of the Rings" trilogy).
So it's no surprise that in his new movie, the horse-racing mockumentary "And They're Off…," the 40-year-old plays a horse trainer with – you guessed it – loads of heart.
Astin's career has slowed down over the past few years -- by design, he says -- but these days he's keeping extremely busy. We sat down with the cordial and candid actor-director-producer to talk about hitting the racetrack and, of course, all those "Goonies" and "Hobbit" rumors.
You worked with some pretty renowned comedians, like Cheri Oteri and Kevin Nealon, in "And They're Off." Was it hard to keep up with them?
I'd love to do [more comedy roles]. I was the straight guy.
So it's no surprise that in his new movie, the horse-racing mockumentary "And They're Off…," the 40-year-old plays a horse trainer with – you guessed it – loads of heart.
Astin's career has slowed down over the past few years -- by design, he says -- but these days he's keeping extremely busy. We sat down with the cordial and candid actor-director-producer to talk about hitting the racetrack and, of course, all those "Goonies" and "Hobbit" rumors.
You worked with some pretty renowned comedians, like Cheri Oteri and Kevin Nealon, in "And They're Off." Was it hard to keep up with them?
I'd love to do [more comedy roles]. I was the straight guy.
- 10/28/2011
- by Claire Donovan
- NextMovie
Clips from the And They're Off movie, starring Sean Astin, Kevin Nealon, Peter Jacobson and Cheri Oteri. Experienced TV director Rob Schiller directs the horseracing comedy scripted by Alan Grossbard, who makes his feature writing debut. This actually looks quite amusing and one I'd like to catch at some point myself, been a horseracing fan. Also in the cast of the Kinobold Releasing distributed film are Mark Moses, Greg Cipes, Martin Mull, Alex Rocco and Mo Collins. And They're Off... is the story of a losing thoroughbred horse trainer (Astin) whose only chance to save his career and get back into the winner?s circle is to hire his erratic ex-girlfriend / jockey (Oteri), who is equally as desperate to get back into His circle.
- 10/10/2011
- Upcoming-Movies.com
Clips from the And They're Off movie, starring Sean Astin, Kevin Nealon, Peter Jacobson and Cheri Oteri. Experienced TV director Rob Schiller directs the horseracing comedy scripted by Alan Grossbard, who makes his feature writing debut. This actually looks quite amusing and one I'd like to catch at some point myself, been a horseracing fan. Also in the cast of the Kinobold Releasing distributed film are Mark Moses, Greg Cipes, Martin Mull, Alex Rocco and Mo Collins. And They're Off... is the story of a losing thoroughbred horse trainer (Astin) whose only chance to save his career and get back into the winner?s circle is to hire his erratic ex-girlfriend / jockey (Oteri), who is equally as desperate to get back into His circle.
- 10/10/2011
- Upcoming-Movies.com
ComingSoon.net has your first look at the poster for the mockumentary-comedy And They're Off... , starring Sean Astin and Cheri Oteri. The October 28 release is about a losing thoroughbred horse trainer (Astin) whose only chance to save his career and get back into the winner's circle is to hire his erratic ex-girlfriend / jockey (Oteri), who is equally as desperate to get back into His circle. Directed by Rob Schiller from a script by Alan Grossbard, the movie also stars Mark Moses, Gigi Rice, Peter Jacobson, Mo Collins, James "Lil Jj" Lewis and Martin Mull. It features appearances by Kevin Nealon, Dot Marie Jones and Alex Rocco, as well as thoroughbred horse trainers Doug O'Neill, Bob Baffert, John Sadler and jockeys Martin Garcia and Joe Talamo. Click the poster for...
- 8/11/2011
- Comingsoon.net
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