EXCLUSIVE: Mary-Louise Parker (Weeds), Carrie-Anne Moss (The Matrix franchise), Isabelle Fuhrman (The Novice) and Liana Liberato (To the Bone) have signed on to star in Justine Bateman’s upcoming characteristic Face, based mostly on her 2021 bestseller, Face: One Sq. Foot of Pores and skin.
The movie penned by Bateman consists of 14 vignettes, each comedic and dramatic, which have a look at girls’s faces getting older, and why that makes individuals indignant. Whereas a lot of society seems to imagine that ladies’s faces are by some means damaged and should be fastened, Face reveals a few of the some ways during which girls, and people round them, permit this concept to take root in any respect.
Parker will play Tanya, an actress balancing her want to make use of her face for her job and the strain to not transfer it in any respect, with Moss as Mrs. Foster, a kindergarten trainer whose younger college students remind her of the magical performance of the face. Fuhrman is about for the function of Chris, a 30-year-old who’s shocked by the warnings of the approaching expiration of her attractiveness, with Liberato to painting Jenny, a waitress decided to succeed on her seems, whereas refusing the notion that these seems will ever change in any respect.
Face will enter manufacturing in Los Angeles in late fall, with Bateman producing below her Part 5 banner, together with Veronica Radaelli (Violet, 9 Bullets). Cassian Elwes (Mudbound, Dallas Patrons Membership) is serving because the mission’s govt producer, with Mary Vernieu and Bret Howe dealing with its casting.
Parker is an Emmy, Golden Globe and Tony Award winner finest recognized for activates collection together with Colin in Black and White, Mr. Mercedes, Billions, When We Rise, The Blacklist, Weeds, The West Wing and Angels in America, amongst others. The actress will subsequent be seen in Peter Hedges’ pandemic drama The Identical Storm, having additionally appeared in movies together with Pink Sparrow, Golden Exits, RED and RED 2, Howl, Solitary Man, The Spiderwick Chronicles, The Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford, Saved!, The Portrait of a Girl, Bullets Over Broadway and Fried Inexperienced Tomatoes.
Finest recognized for her function as Trinity in The Matrix franchise — which she reprised for final 12 months’s The Matrix Resurrections — Moss has additionally appeared in movies together with Knife Combat, Disturbia, The Chumscrubber, Chocolat and Memento, to call a couple of. Notable tv credit embrace Inform Me a Story, Jessica Jones, People and Vegas. The actress can even quickly be seen starring alongside Thomas Haden Church and Bruce Dern within the dramedy Chocolate Lizards, from director Mark Lambert Bristol.
Fuhrman is a Tribeca prize winner and Unbiased Spirit Award nominee whose movie credit embrace Orphan and its current sequel Orphan: First Kill, in addition to such titles as Escape Room: Match of Champions, The Novice and The Starvation Video games. The actress has additionally been seen on Showtime’s Masters of Intercourse and can subsequent seem in options together with Jordan Gertner’s Sheroes for Paramount, Andy Tennant’s thriller Unit 234, Jonathan Sobol’s sci-fi pic Littlemouth and Kevin Costner’s Western, Horizon.
Liberato’s movie credit embrace The Seashore Home, To the Stars, Banana Break up, Measure of a Man, To the Bone, Novitiate, If I Keep, Hang-out, Caught in Love. and Belief. The actress has additionally been seen on such collection as A Million Little Issues and Mild as a Feather, amongst others. Different upcoming initiatives for Liberato embrace Scream 6, Okay. Asher Levin’s thriller Dig, Nahnatchka Khan’s horror-comedy Completely Killer and Todd Bogin’s thriller Left with Solely Rain.
Bateman is an Emmy- and Golden Globe-nominated actor, filmmaker and writer whose characteristic directorial debut Violet, starring Olivia Munn, Luke Bracey and Justin Theroux, world premiered to essential acclaim on the 2021 SXSW Movie Pageant. She directed that title from her personal script, having additionally written, directed and produced the shorts PUSH and 5 Minutes. Bateman has additionally authored two bestselling books, titled Fame and Face, which have been revealed by Akashic Books in 2018 and 2021, respectively.
Parker is represented by CAA and Untitled Leisure; Moss by Hodgson Administration Group and Kleinberg Lange Cuddy & Carlo; Fuhrman by UTA and Luber Roklin Leisure; Liberato by Progressive Artists, Leisure 360 and Yorn, Levine, Barnes; and Bateman by APA and Elevated Movies.