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Materialists: Past Lives director Celine Song is making an A24 romcom with Pedro Pascal and Dakota Johnson
10 months ago
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Turning her vision to a slightly different genre, Celine Song’s Materialists has been described as a romcom featuring another complicated love triangle.
With Past Lives becoming one of the biggest films of 2023, fans have been eagerly awaiting details of Celine Song’s next project. Her directorial debut warmed and devastated our hearts, and picked up several award nominations including Oscar nods for best picture and best original screenplay. Now, we’ve caught our first glimpse of Song’s new film, Materialists.
Turning her vision to a slightly different genre, Materialists has been described as a romcom, drawing inspiration from James L Brooks’s 1980s films Broadcast News and Terms Of Endearment.
Here’s everything we know so far about Song’s much-anticipated follow-up film.
What is the plot of Materialists?
A lot of the plot details are still being kept under wraps, but we do know that the film will be a New York-set romantic comedy that follows a professional matchmaker called Lucy who gets involved with a wealthy man, but still harbours feelings for the broke actor-waiter she left behind.
If Past Lives is anything to go by, we can probably expect another complicated and devastating love triangle at the centre of the story.
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Who will star in Materialists?
Taking on the lead (but undisclosed) roles are Dakota Johnson, Pedro Pascal and Chris Evans. More recently, Zoë Winters (Succession), Dasha Nekrasova (Bad Behaviour), Louisa Jacobson (The Gilded Age) and Marin Ireland (Eileen) have all joined the cast.
When will Materialists be released?
As filming is still underway, it’ll likely be a while until Materialists is on the big screen. But here’s to hoping for a 2025 release.
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