Martin Freeman (The Responder), Josh Hutcherson (The Starvation Video games) Malin Akerman (Watchmen), Jess Weixler (Monsters), Craig Roberts (Submarine) have been confirmed within the forged of Jamie Adams‘ Let’s Love as taking pictures is underway in Wales.
Written by Adams, with contributions from the forged, the improvised comedy is filming throughout Cardiff, the Brecon Beacons, Porthcrawl and at Dragon Studios in Bridgend. Postproduction be accomplished by early 2025.
The connection comedy is produced by Bristol-based Joyful Hour Productions and Manchester-based Boudica Leisure in affiliation with Principal Movie Finance. Additional forged members embrace Chloe Jouannet and Richard Elis.
Freeman co-stars as screenwriter Nigel alongside Akerman as movie director Andrea, Hutcherson as her lead actor husband Jackson and Weixler as his on-screen romantic lead Jess. The quartet reunite in Wales for a 10-year anniversary fan conference of their final hit movie, solely to find the hapless studio rep has booked the fallacious month.
Filled with disappointment, and with the weekend now all to themselves, they’re given a slim comfort prize… a chance to pitch a sequel concept early the subsequent week, which leaves them with simply days to conjure some inspiration for a profession saving observe up.
In the hunt for inspiration, they wander the Welsh countryside, unintentionally migrating again to the situation of their cult historic movie, the place they’re pressured to discover their very own anxieties, aspirations, agendas and fractured relationships.
“It is a relationship comedy at its core, albeit it’s additionally a fish out of water story that sees these hapless movie professionals sort of marooned in the midst of the Welsh mountains as they’re pressured to look at their very own lives while struggling to remain targeted on the job in hand. We’re throwing these wonderful actors into some enjoyable conditions, and it’s fascinating viewing seeing the outcomes,” mentioned producer Tom George at Joyful Hour.
Adams is understood for his improvisational type as a director with a lot of his options shot on location and sometimes over comparatively brief intervals of time.
Current titles embrace struggling rock band story Love Unfolds with Alia Shawkat and She is Love, starring Haley Bennett, Sam Riley and Marisa Abela, which filmed over every week in Cornwall on the top of the Covid pandemic.
“Let’s Love is really one of many biggest movie making experiences of my life, the entire troupe concerned within the collaboration gave it their all, so grateful to our producers for making it occur. Indie movie making is alive and effectively, particularly when legends equivalent to Martin Freeman, Josh Hutcherson, Malin Akerman and Jess Weixler become involved. Diolch yn fawr (thanks very a lot),” mentioned Adams.
“The distinctive alternative to supply a function movie that’s shot in director Jamie Adams’ unique type and together with his tempo of working, the place dialogue is predominantly improvised by an unbelievable forged is thrilling,” mentioned producer Rebecca Lengthy at Boudica Leisure.
Martin Freeman mentioned, “Working with Jamie Adams on Let’s Love is really a pleasure. I might fortunately do it another time, no drawback. We couldn’t have been luckier than with the forged we received collectively, both.”
World rights are at present accessible because the producers’ open discussions with distribution companions.
Freeman is represented by Fashionable Collective and CAA, Hutcherson by Gersh, Hansen, Jacobson, Teller, Hoberman, Newman, Warren, Richman, Rush, Kaller & Gellman, LLP and TFC Administration, Akerman by United Expertise Company and Mosaic, Weixler by Gersh and Mosaic, and Roberts by Curtis Brown.
