Coming on top of a competitive situation, Apple Original Films has picked One Month Mark, a romantic comedy that has Jennifer Lawrence attached to star and produce.
Playwright-writer-director Sophie Fleur de Bruijn wrote the spec script, which saw a chase ensue to land it by producers and studios.
David Ready and Peter Chernin of Chernin Entertainment, one of the companies behind horror hit Backrooms, are producing along with Lawrence, who is producing via her Excellent Cadaver banner, as well as Lawrence’s producing partner Justine Ciarrocchi. De Bruijn will executive produce.
The logline, such as it is, reads thus: “She has never made it past a month in a relationship. He has never gone longer than a month without one.”
The project does not have a director but a search for one is already underway.
This is de Bruijn’s second collaboration with Apple, following Early Action, a spec comedy that the company bought last year. She honed comedy chops at iO and The Upright Citizens Brigade, and is also graduate of the Second City Conservatory. On her website, she says she has a “passion for crafting high energy, emotionally grounded comedies that center on unruly women and girls.”
One Month Mark is now the fourth Lawrence project for Apple. She recently wrapped What Happens at Night, Martin Scorsese’s drama that also stars Leonardo DiCaprio. She starred and produced the 2022 drama Causeway for the company and producer on the Peabody Award-winning Apple Original 2023 documentary Bread & Roses, which told of women in Afghanistan living under the Taliban rule.
Brady Fujikawa, exec vp of Chernin Entertainment, will executive produce and oversee for Chernin. Chernin is enjoying a banner year as, in addition to Backrooms, it released Charlize Theron’s Netflix hit Apex as well as the TV adaptation of Man on Fire.
Lawrence is represented by LBI Entertainment and Hansen, Jacobson. De Bruijn is repped by Anonymous Content and Johnson Shapiro.
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