Exclusive: Chris Messina (HBO’s Sharp Objects) and Ari Graynor (Showtime’s I’m Dying Up Here) are set to headline a single-camera comedy from Atlanta and What We Do In the Shadows executive producer Paul Simms, which has received a formal green light at FX with Baskets co-creator/executive producer Jonathan Krisel directing.
Written by Simms, the untitled comedy is about a family surviving a widespread technological crisis. Messina and Graynor will play the parents, Hunt, a lawyer, and Rachel, an Hr executive, respectively.
Simms executive produces with M. Blair Breard. FX Productions, where Simms is under an overall deal and Breard has a first-look pact, is the studio.
The project had had a blinking green light at FX for awhile, looking for the rights actors to play the leads Hunt and Rachel.
Messina will next be seen in the Warner Bros. DC film, Birds Of Prey,...
Written by Simms, the untitled comedy is about a family surviving a widespread technological crisis. Messina and Graynor will play the parents, Hunt, a lawyer, and Rachel, an Hr executive, respectively.
Simms executive produces with M. Blair Breard. FX Productions, where Simms is under an overall deal and Breard has a first-look pact, is the studio.
The project had had a blinking green light at FX for awhile, looking for the rights actors to play the leads Hunt and Rachel.
Messina will next be seen in the Warner Bros. DC film, Birds Of Prey,...
- 11/23/2019
- by Nellie Andreeva
- Deadline Film + TV
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