Searchlight has boarded Suncoast —A new film that marks Laura Chinn’s feature-directing debut (Florida GirlsLaura Linney stars in a new movie ().Ozark), Woody Harrelson (Triangle of Sadness) and Nico Parker (The Last of Us) — Deadline can confirm.
The film going into production next month is a drama based on Chinn’s own life experience from the early 2000s. It follows a teenager (Parker) living with her strong-willed mother (Linney), who must take her brother to live at a specialized facility. She forms an unlikely friendship with Harrelson, an eccentric activist who is attempting to help a woman who has been protesting controversial medical cases.
Jeremy Plager, Francesca Silvestri, Kevin Chinoy and Oly Obst are producing the pic, based on Chinn’s 2022 Black List script. SVP Production Taylor Friedman and Manager of Creative Affairs Daniel Yu will oversee the project for Searchlight — reporting to Heads of Production and Development, DanTram Nguyen and Katie Goodson-Thomas.
Linney is a three-time Oscar nominee who recently landed a pair of Emmy noms as the co-executive producer and star of Netflix’s recently-wrapped crime drama series Ozark.
Also a three-time Oscar nom, Harrelson will next be seen in Ruben Östlund’s Palme d’Or winner, Triangle of Sadness.
Parker starred in Tim Burton’s Dumbo and Lisa Joy’s Reminiscence and will next appear in HBO’s series adaptation of the video game, The Last of Us.
Linney is represented by CAA, Lighthouse Management & Media and Yorn, Levine, Barnes; Harrelson by Seven Deuce Entertainment and Ziffren Brittenham; Parker by WME and Curtis Brown Group in the UK; and Chinn by 3 Arts Entertainment, Range Media Partners and Hansen, Jacobson, Teller.