(Left) Kevin Costner for ‘Horizon: An American Saga’ at CinemaCon 2024. Picture: Warner Bros. (Proper) Jake Gyllenhaal arrives on the pink carpet of the 94th Oscars® on the Dolby Theatre at Ovation Hollywood in Los Angeles, CA, on Sunday, March 27, 2022. Credit score/Supplier: Mark Von Holden / A.M.P.A.S. Copyright: ©A.M.P.A.S.
Preview:
- Jake Gyllenhaal and Kevin Costner are to steer ‘Honeymoon with Harry’.
- ‘Loopy, Silly, Love.’ duo Glenn Ficarra and John Requa will direct.
- Amazon MGM Studios is backing the most recent model.
There are motion pictures that spend a bit of little bit of time floating round improvement limbo earlier than ultimately being picked up and pushed into manufacturing.
Then, we now have ideas like ‘Honeymoon with Harry’, which has been ready for its second for thus lengthy, it might legally drink have been it human.
Now Amazon MGM Studios has introduced that ‘Street Home’ star Jake Gyllenhaal and ‘Yellowstone’ veteran Kevin Costner are aboard the most recent try to make it a actuality.
Launch Date: Mar 20, 2024
Run Time: 2 hr 1 min
Finances: $85,000,000
Overseeing this one? ‘Loopy, Silly, Love’. directing duo Glenn Ficarra and John Requa, who will work from a script by common collaborator (and powerhouse ‘That is Us’ TV showrunner) Dan Fogelman.
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What’s the story of ‘Honeymoon with Harry’?
Jake Gyllenhaal arrives on the pink carpet of the 94th Oscars® on the Dolby Theatre at Ovation Hollywood in Los Angeles, CA, on Sunday, March 27, 2022. Credit score/Supplier: Mark Von Holden / A.M.P.A.S. Copyright: ©A.M.P.A.S.
The plot for this one has its roots in a novel by Bart Baker, which follows a person (Gyllenhaal) as he decides to go on a honeymoon along with his would-be father-in-law (Costner) after his fiancée dies unexpectedly two days earlier than their marriage ceremony.
Although the 2 males dislike one another, they discover widespread floor of their shared grief.
However sufficient in regards to the story. It’s the historical past of the undertaking that’s attention-grabbing: this one has been within the works since 2004, when Baker’s novel was nonetheless unpublished (it lastly noticed cabinets in 2012).
Producer Mike Karz first arrange ‘Honeymoon’ at New Line Cinema 21 years in the past, and the undertaking attracted high title expertise via the years, however nothing got here to fruition. ‘Crash’ filmmaker Paul Haggis wrote a draft and was going to direct a model that had Vince Vaughn and Jack Nicholson circling.
Jonathan Demme additionally flirted with it when it had a script by Jenny Lumet, the author of ‘Rachel Getting Married’ and, extra not too long ago, co-creator of ‘Star Trek: Unusual New Worlds’.
Fogelman first got here on board to write down it in 2015, when New Line had Bradley Cooper and Robert De Niro because the supposed leads. And in 2017, Nick Cassavetes was connected to direct.
Lastly, Karz has moved it to Amazon MGM Studios, which has connected its ‘Street Home’ star Gyllenhaal and Costner, who has been ploughing a lot of his time, vitality and no small amount of cash into his epic ‘Horizon: An American Saga’ Western motion pictures.
When will ‘Honeymoon with Harry’ be on screens?
Whereas this undertaking has seemingly been cursed with unhealthy luck, its fortunes could lastly be altering. Amazon has but to announce a launch date, although, so we’ll have to attend and see if this one lastly makes it to both theaters or streaming.
Kevin Costner as Hayes Ellison in New Line Cinema’s Western drama ‘Horizon: An American Saga – Chapter One’, a Warner Bros. Footage launch. Picture Credit score: Richard Foreman. Copyright: © 2024 Warner Bros. Leisure Inc. All Rights Reserved.