Bleecker Street Takes Rights To Comedy ‘The Fabulous Four’ With Susan Sarandon, Bette Midler & Megan Mullally As Sissy Spacey Joins Cast
31.10.2022 - 19:09
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Bleecker Street has taken North American rights to the comedy The Fabulous Four, starring Academy Award winner Susan Sarandon (Feud: Bette and Joan), two-time Academy Award nominee Bette Midler (Hocus Pocus 2) and two-time Emmy winner Megan Mullally (Will & Grace), with Academy Award winner Sissy Spacek (Sam & Kate) coming aboard to round out its core cast.
Production is scheduled to kick off in Australia in early 2023, with Bleecker Street planning a nationwide theatrical release. Sierra/Affinity is repping international rights.
The film from director Jocelyn Moorhouse (The Dressmaker) follows three life-long friends (Sarandon, Mullally, Spacek) who travel to Key West, Florida to be bridesmaids in the surprise wedding of their college girlfriend Marilyn (Midler). Once there, sisterhoods are rekindled, the past rises up again in all its glory, and there’s enough sparks, drinks and romance to change all their lives in ways they never expected.
The Fabulous Four first emerged as a hot package at Cannes 2022, with Moorhouse, Sarandon, Midler and Mullally officially coming aboard at that time, as we told you first. Moorhouse, Jenna Milly and Ann Marie Allison penned the script. Richard Barton Lewis’ (August Rush, Robin Hood: Prince of Thieves) Southpaw Entertainment is producing alongside Goalpost Pictures’ Rosemary Blight (Carmen, The Invisible Man). Exec producers are Goalpost’s Ben Grant and Kylie du Fresne, Southpaw’s Gabrielle Jerou-Tabak, and Bleecker Street’s Andrew Karpen and Kent Sanderson.
Spacek is a screen icon best known for her star-making turn in the 1976 film Carrie, based on Stephen King’s same-name novel, for which she received an Academy Award nomination. She went on to win an Academy Award for The