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EXCLUSIVE: After taking his time to find his subsequent large position after profitable this yr’s Perfect Actor Oscar, Brendan Fraser appears to have zeroed in on that position as resources inform Closing date he’s set to famous person in Searchlight’s Condo Circle of relatives. Red meat helmer Hikari will direct from a script she co-wrote with Stephen Blahut.
Hikari has been creating the undertaking since 2019 and can produce together with Shin Yamaguchi in addition to Eddie Vaisman and Julia Lebedev of Sight Unseen Productions.
The tale follows follows a down-and-out actor residing in Tokyo who’s employed as a token American man for a Eastern rental-family corporate, main him on an sudden adventure of self-discovery throughout the roles he performs in other folks’s lives.
Manufacturing is about to begin this spring in Japan. Blahut and Tomo Koizumi will exec produce. SVP Manufacturing Taylor Friedman and Supervisor of Ingenious Affairs Daniel Yu are overseeing the pic for Searchlight.
Fraser is having himself fairly the profession renaissance over the past yr that started together with his paintings in Darren Aronofsky’s The Whale. The position gained him a variety of accolades, culminating with this Perfect Actor Oscar. Whilst the SAG-AFTRA strike led to a lengthen in his resolution, Fraser nonetheless was once very affected person in you decide on what his subsequent position even previous to the strike going. When this script in the end got here his manner, it was once onerous for him to cross, and in the long run he dedicated to famous person.
Even through being affected person, he unearths himself in every other award season darling together with his most up-to-date movie, Killers of the Flower Moon, bowing closing month and immediately becoming a member of the sector as one in every of this yr’s Perfect Image contenders.
He’s repped through CAA, Linden Leisure and Felker Toczek Suddleson.
