Carey Mulligan Boards Adam Sandler Netflix Movie ‘Spaceman’
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EXCLUSIVE:Huge news here forCarey Mulligan as thePromising Young WomanBest Actress nominee heads into the final lap of Oscar season: We hear on good authority that she has joinedNetflix‘sAdam Sandler featureSpaceman.The project was previously known asThe Spaceman of Bohemia.
The story, based on Jaroslav Kalfar’s novel, follows an astronaut (Sandler) sent to the edge of the galaxy to collect mysterious ancient dust. He soon finds his earthly life falling to pieces, and he turns to the only voice who can help him try to put it back together. It just so happens to belong to a creature from the beginning of time lurking in the shadows of his ship. Mulligan will play the wife of Sandler’s astronaut protagonist. Emmy-winning Chernobyl helmer Johan Renck is set to direct off a screenplay adapted by Colby Day.
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The film will be produced by Channing Tatum, Reid Carolin, Peter Kiernan and Michael Parets for Free Association. Parets will oversee for Free Association and Tim Headington, Lia Buman and Max Silva will oversee for Tango Entertainment. Ben Ormand, Renck and Barry Bernardi will executive produce.
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Spacemanreps Mulligan’s fifth collaboration with Netflix in the wake of four-time Oscar nominatedMudbound;her feature with Ralph Fiennes,The Dig;the upcoming Bradley Cooper Leonard Bernstein movieMaestroin which she plays the composer/conductor’s wife, and the 2018 BBC mini-seriesCollateral in which she played a London detective investigating the random murder of a pizza delivery man, delving her into a cross-section of British society.
Mulligan made her Saturday Night Live hosting debut this past weekend. In Promising Young Woman, written, directed and produced by Emerald Fennell, Mulligan plays Cassie, an ex-med student who looks to avenge the wronged death and sexual harassment of her friend Nina. In the wake of the film’s world premiere at 2020 Sundance, Promising Young Woman promptly scored a huge Rotten Tomatoes score, currently 90% Certified Fresh, with high praise for Mulligan’s performance as a traumatized woman. The pic scored five Oscar nominations, including Best Actress for Mulligan, Best Picture, and Fennell further breaking glass ceilings for female filmmakers in the Directing category. Mulligan, in addition to her Oscar nom for the role, was nominated for a Golden Globe Best Actress Drama, and Female Lead Actor at SAGs.Promising Young Woman recently won Outstanding British Film and Best Screenplay at the BAFTAs. Promising Young Woman reps Mulligan’s second Oscar nomination after launching out of a cannon with An Education in 2009.
The Westminster London native has starred in such movies as Suffragette, Inside Llewyn Davis, Wall Street: Money Never Sleeps, Drive, Public Enemies,and Baz Luhrmann’sThe Great Gatsbyas Daisy, a role which she won among several actresses. Also upcoming for Mulligan is the Christos Nikou directedFingernailswhich Cate Blanchett’s production company Dirty Films is producing.
Mulligan is repped by CAA, Julian Belfrage Associates, and Jackoway Austen Tyerman Wertheimer Mandelbaum Morris Bernstein Trattner & Klein.
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11 Comments
Adam Sandler really film, really! I hope his name is a typo! I can not believe Carey Mulligan in a movie with Sandler (who stared in That’s My Boy which celebrated a pedifile relationship) Wow. Hope this is not true.
- Fel Rey
Hollywood has always been about money, rarely if, ever about the Arts. Most people sadly enough do not notice the narrative structure in script writing, the physical process of acting or capturing this orchestration on film. So I wonder what are we actually buying, when we sit down at home, in a theater or where ever to share a moment with friends or family? It’s always a let down, when there is no creativity nor intelligence in the story telling process. So I am hoping Adam can transport all us, to a better place for 90 minutes with the help of Kelfar, Johan, and Colby’s efforts.
- Tommy
Adam Sandler is a comedic genius.
- Arlo Pear
Either this is a joke or Carey isn’t the person people thought she was.
- Garbo
With all due respect to Adam Sandler who is definitely an underrated actor with the ability to deliver when the material is right (The Wedding Singer, Punch Drunk Love, Spanglish, Reign Over Me, Funny People, Uncut Gems), if the best mainstream offer that being the Oscar nominated headliner of a celebrated instant cult classic (Promising Young Woman) can get you is the wife role in an Adam Sandler movie, then either the industry is fundamentally flawed OR she needs better reps OR I am just completely sleeping on this whole project that will turn out to be amazing.
- Anonymous
OR… none of what you said matters.
- Anonymous
Or maybe she’s just after a money gig. When was the last time she had one of those?
- Anonymous
“Emmy-winning Chernobyl helmer Johan Renck is set to direct.”
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