Oscar winner JK Simmons (WHIPLASH, upcoming TERMINATOR GENISYS) and Emile Hirsch (LONE SURVIVOR, INTO THE WILD) are set to star in the comedy THE RUNAROUND, to be directed by Gavin Wiesen (THE ART OF GETTING BY) from a screenplay by Seth W. Owen (upcoming MORGAN), it was announced today by producers Spring Pictures’ Mandy Tagger Brockey and Adi Ezroni (A LATE QUARTET, KELLY & CAL), American Film Production’s George Voskericyan and J.M.R. Luna (TELL, HELICOPTER MOM), Wing and a Prayer Pictures’ Ron Perlman and Josh Crook (ALL I SEE YOU, BONE IN THE THROAT) and P. Jennifer Dana (IT FOLLOWS, upcoming TABLE 19).
The Solution Entertainment Group is handling international rights to the comedy and will present it to buyers at the upcoming Cannes Film Market. The Gersh Agency and UTA are co-representing US rights.
Set to shoot in Los Angeles in July, the film is produced in association with Abbolita Films and Heretic Films.
When a globe-trotting, workaholic father (Simmons) trying to visit his daughter on a last minute layover in Los Angeles discovers that she's disappeared, he forces her awkward, nervous ex-boyfriend (Hirsch), still nursing a broken heart, to help him find her over the course of one increasingly crazy night.
The financing for the film was arranged by The Gersh Agency and UTA Independent Film Group with the producers counsels: CDAS' Marc Simon for Spring Pictures, Jonathan Gray for Wing and a Prayer Pictures and Elsa Ramo for American Film Production.
Wiesen’s feature film debut, THE ART OF GETTING BY, starring Emma Roberts and Freddie Highmore, premiered at the 2011 Sundance Film Festival and was released by Fox Searchlight Pictures worldwide.
Seth W. Owen’s 2014 Black List script, MORGAN, has been greenlit at 20th Century Fox with Kate Mara to star in the psychological thriller. Ridley Scott is producing the project which starts shooting in June in Ireland.
“The producers have assembled a top-notch cast including JK Simmons who is on everyone’s wish list after wowing audiences everywhere with his Oscar winning performance in WHIPLASH, and the versatile Emile Hirsch on board. The script is a wildly entertaining ride from start to finish and we can’t wait to bring this film to audiences,” said Lisa Wilson and Myles Nestel, co-founders and partners of The Solution Entertainment Group.
JK Simmons won the Academy Award this year and received critical acclaim for his performance in Damien Chazelle’s worldwide festival hit WHIPLASH. He will next be seen in the highly anticipated TERMINATOR GENISYS to be released by Paramount Pictures on July 1st and the upcoming Warner Bros.’ film THE ACCOUNTANT with Ben Affleck and Anna Kendrick. He is currently shooting THE MEDDLER with Susan Sarandon and Rose Byrne. His other credits include JUNO, the SPIDER-MAN trilogy and THANK YOU FOR SMOKING.
Emile Hirsch was last seen in Universal Pictures’ box office hit LONE SURVIVOR co-starring Mark Wahlberg and Taylor Kitsch. His other feature film credits include INTO THE WILD, KILLER JOE, MILK and THE GIRL NEXT DOOR. He will next be seen in The Solution’s Sundance selection TEN THOUSAND SAINTS with Ethan Hawke to be released later this year and VINCENT-N-ROXXY opposite Zoë Kravitz, in post-production. Hirsch recently finished production on THE AUTOPSY OF JANE DOE opposite Brian Cox.
Simmons is repped by The Gersh Agency, Hirsch by UTA, Wiesen by Frank Wuliger at The Gersh Agency and Owen by WME and Apostle Management’s George Heller.
ABOUT THE SOLUTION ENTERTAINMENT GROUP
The Solution Entertainment Group is a multi-faceted, full service international sales and financing company which offers filmmakers access to development funding, production funding, production and post-production services as well as international distribution. The Solution was founded in 2012 by international sales veteran, Lisa Wilson, and leading film financier, Myles Nestel, who are both partners.
The Solution recently announced their partnerships with 2015 Academy Award Best Picture recipient John Lesher on Anthony Mandler’s production of thriller TOKYO VICE with Daniel Radcliffe shooting in Japan this summer, 2015 Golden Globe recipient Cary Fukunaga and 2929 Entertainment on Chase Palmer’s supernatural thriller BLACK LUNG set to star Amanda Seyfried and Theo James, Oren Moverman’s production of Joseph Cedar’s OPPENHEIMER STRATEGIES starring Richard Gere, Charlotte Gainsbourg and Michael Sheen which is in post-production and TEN THOUSAND SAINTS starring Ethan Hawke, Asa Butterfield and Hailee Steinfeld, directed by Bob Pulcini and Shani Berman which world premiered at the 2015 Sundance Film Festival.
The company is also in post-production on the psychological thriller MAN DOWN starring Shia LaBeouf, Gary Oldman and Kate Mara, BLEED FOR THIS with Miles Teller and Aaron Eckhart and executive produced by Martin Scorsese and THE TICKET with Dan Stevens, Malin Akerman and Oliver Platt.
Their additional titles include two films currently in release, IFC Films’ 5 TO 7 with Anton Yelchin and Berenice Marlohe and Saban Films’ THE FORGER starring John Travolta, Christopher Plummer and Tye Sheridan.
The Solution’s slate also includes INFINITELY POLAR BEAR with Mark Ruffalo and Zoe Saldana, to be released domestically by Sony Pictures Classics on June 19th, the romantic comedy HOW TO MAKE LOVE LIKE AN ENGLISHMAN with Pierce Brosnan, Salma Hayek and Jessica Alba set for release via Saban Films and JENNY’S WEDDING with Katherine Heigl, Tom Wilkinson and Linda Emond.