EXCLUSIVE: Jason Schmidt (Grease: Rise of the Pink Ladies) will star alongside Angelina Jolie, Charlie Plummer, and Cliff “Method Man” Smith in Sunny, the dark thriller from Norwegian filmmaker Eva Sørhaug (Tokyo Vice, Yellowjackets) on which we’ve been reporting on since December.
Character details are under wraps. Riffing on classic mafia films, Sunny follows a female gangster who fights to protect her sons — and herself — from an abusive drug kingpin. But when a devastating event occurs, she only has a matter of hours to plot their permanent escape.
Schmidt and Plummer will be playing Jolie’s two sons.
Hailing from Gramercy Park Media, A Higher Standard, and Nickel City Pictures, Sunny is written by William Day Frank, who conceived the story with Sørhaug. Gramercy Park Media’s Nathan Klingher is producing alongside Jolie, Nickel City Pictures’ Mark Fasano and A Higher Standard’s Jeffrey Greenstein, in association with Choice Films, with Sørhaug exec producing. A Higher Standard is handling worldwide sales, with WME Independent co-repping domestic.
An up-and-comer heretofore best known for starring in Paramount+’s Grease: Rise of the Pink Ladies, Schmidt has also appeared on shows like FBI: Most Wanted and And Just Like That… He is repped by Gersh and Luber Roklin Entertainment.
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