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EXCLUSIVE: Two-time Emmy victor Jeff Daniels is joining antecedently formed Oscar victor Brendan Fraser successful nan cosmic sci-fi thriller Starman.
Emmy-winning filmmaker Josh Wakely, who is penning and directing, will rotation cameras this summer.
Daniels will play Ed Watkins, nan protective and powerful co-leader of a transformational institution he built alongside visionary technologist Tom Adams (Fraser), a man who intends acold much to Ed than nan institution itself.
In Starman, Tom Adams is an designer of nan early who launches a historical expedition to Mars, positioning himself astatine nan forefront of humanity’s adjacent awesome frontier. But erstwhile unforeseen events strand him millions of miles from Earth, his ngo becomes an urgent title against time—driven not by endurance alone, but by love.
Starman is simply a GRACE: A Storytelling Company accumulation and is produced by Eddie Vaisman of Sight Unseen—who astir precocious produced Fraser’s Searchlight movie Rental Family—and Wakely and Rebecca Graham of GRACE: A Storytelling Company. David S. Goyer (Batman Begins) executive produces alongside Tarek Sherif, Ryan Graves, Matt Tedder and Sight Unseen’s Julia Lebedev. The movie is financed by Sherif and Graves. Anton is handling world sales, which launched astatine nan Marché du Film de Cannes.
Daniels won 2 Emmys, taking location Best Lead Actor successful a Drama Series for The Newsroom and Best Supporting Actor for Godless. A three-time Tony Award nominee, his Broadway credits see To Kill a Mockingbird (the highest-grossing American play successful Broadway history) Blackbird, and God of Carnage.
Daniels’ characteristic credits see The Martian, Terms of Endearment, The Hours, Pleasantville, Gettysburg, and Good Night and Good Luck. He stars other Jennifer Aniston and Reese Witherspoon successful nan upcoming 5th play of Apple TV’s Emmy-nominated play The Morning Show and tin presently beryllium seen arsenic Jimmy’s begetter successful play 3 of Shrinking, besides connected Apple TV.
Most recently, Daniels starred successful Netflix’s constricted bid A Man successful Full. He will adjacent beryllium seen portraying erstwhile President Ronald Reagan successful nan Cold War thriller The Brink of War, other J.K. Simmons and Jared Harris. Daniels besides conscionable wrapped 2034 for Netflix, starring other Rachel McAdams, pinch Joseph Gordon Levitt directing, and produced by Rian Johnson and Ram Bergman.
The character is represented by LBI Entertainment, Martino Management and Yorn, Levine.
GRACE: A Storytelling Company was founded by Wakely, creator of nan Emmy-winning Netflix animated bid Beat Bugs and its follow-up Motown Magic. Wakely besides secured life authorities to boxing fable Muhammad Ali and originated and is an executive shaper connected nan upcoming Amazon scripted bid The Greatest.
