Friday, July 24, 2015

Meryl rumored to join Amy Schumer in follow up to "Trainwreck"

Multiple sources are reporting that Meryl is on the short list of names mentioned to possibly join Amy Schumer in a mother-daughter comedy.   Schumer, who can currently be seen in theaters starring in Trainwreck, has re-written a script with her sister about a mother and daughter who evidently get kidnapped while vacationing in Brazil.

This is very far from any confirmation of Meryl's participation, obviously.  Variety indicates that if a director signs on they hope to begin filming before the end of the year. As far as we know, Meryl's schedule is open.  However, we know that The Good House has been waiting in the wings for almost two years now.  As recently as February of this year, FilmNation reiterated that the film was set to begin production this year, following The Founder (which is currently filming).  Yes, Meryl mentioned months ago in one interview that she wouldn't be doing anything after Florence Foster Jenkins for a while, but that film has already wrapped and who knows whether she truly wants an extended break.

So what's the likely scenario?  If the untitled Schumer project has a great script, it could be a fantastic opportunity for Meryl to be in yet another box office hit.  I haven't seen Trainwreck, but it's opening weekend was fantastic and the trailer suggests it's hilarious.  Schumer is likewise a riot in interviews.  But if The Good House moves forward (please!) and Meryl stays on, I'm guessing it would happen this fall.  That would give Meryl at least two to three months break after finishing Florence.  

Alas, no director is yet attached to either film.  What if Meryl joins the Schumer pic, films it this fall and has that along with Florence for 2016, and then finally completes The Good House next year?  That could leave The Good House her lone project set for release in 2017, an original character in a potentially very dramatic story.  Streep has done a lot of comedy/lighter fare recently so I'd love to see her with a gripping performance in an outright drama.

As I say often on this blog...time will tell.

7 comments:

  1. I wouldn't mind this but I want more dramas for the ages for Meryl, she did so few in the last 16 years. Even if it is for TV, like that Olive Kitterage series, something for her to really get her teeth into..

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    1. Agreed. That's why I want The Good House!

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  2. I can't agree with you... She tends to alternate comedies and dramas in the last years and it seems to me a good management of her career. And, afterall, as she says, she has to have fun doing it, otherwise she woin't do it. Comedies and musicals are rather underestimated, but the true challenge to a good actor is not to make the audience cry, it's making them laugh.

    Greetings, Hugo, from Portugal

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    1. But she isn't really alternating dramas and comedies that last two years. Without having done Master Class, if Florence is the only movie she has out next year, that will be three years in a row of only comedy or musical. Four if you count A:OC as a comedy (as it was campaigned at the Globes).

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  3. I am getting to the point where I am thinking The Good House isn't going to happen. It has been what, 2 years, since it was announced and nothing. I was really hoping this would happen with Meryl Streep. :(

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    1. Sadly, I agree with you. The fact that there has been no news on it for months, no director attached, Meryl interviewed as saying Florence will be last for while...has me worried. Just weird that after announcement his winter that The Good House was one of first two films to be produced under new joint venture of FilmNation and Roadshow that we still have nothing. I can't imagine that the script wasn't finished by the time that announcement came out.

      Streep isn't attached to film anything this fall. Still open for for involvement. August: Osage County was first announced in early fall 2010 and not filmed for two years. Hopefully The Good House will follow suit. Could have Florence Foster Jenkins released summer, The Good House fourth quarter 2016.

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    2. Also this would sadly be the second straight time a project with Robert De Niro never came to fruition, following First Man.

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