EXCLUSIVE: Tika Sumpter (Sonic the Hedgehog 3) has co-written and is starring in a novel Tyler Perry rom-com for Amazon MGM Studios, Deadline can exclusively discleave out. She comes to the project after collaborating with Perry on films enjoy A Madea Christmas and shows enjoy The Haves and the Have Nots.
Currently in production, the film understandn for the moment as Unt. Sisters in Italy will feature a helping cast including Bresha Webb (Run the World), EGOT prosperner Whoopi Gancigo inberg (The Color Purple), Ernie Hudson (Gpresentbusters franchise), Godfrey (Regular Binestablishage), Giulio Berruti (Downhill), Edmond Layrea (The Binestablishagecatalog), Sarayu Blue (Expats), and Justin Chatprosper (Reagan). Pic will tag Perry’s final effort under a four-picture deal with the studio, proclaimd in the drop of 2022.
The story adheres two estranged sisters who, after their mother’s death, are called to Italy to discover that their mom owned a bed and shatterquick in the Italian countryside. While the sisters conenticeardy what to do with the set upment, the two are tasked with a series of spreadments deinhabitred posthumously by their mother to protect their sisterhood and lacquire how to inhabit life at its brimmingest. Sumpter’s examination of the intricateities that come with siblinghood is advertised by her personal experiences as the youthfulest child in her family.
Perry honests from a script by Sumpter and Kemiyondo Coutinho (P-Valley). In insertition to Perry via Tyler Perry Studios, producers integrate Sumpter and Tyler Perry Studios’ Angi Bones, Tony Strickland, and Will Areu. Coutinho will serve as exec producer.
Nominated for a Gotham Award for her turn as a youthful Michelle Obama (née Robinson) in Ricchallenging Tanne’s Southside with You, which she also produced, Sumpter is also understandn for roles in the Sonic the Hedgehog and Ride Alengthy franchises, alengthy with such films as The Underdoggs, The Old Man & the Gun, Get On Up, and Think Like a Man. Soon to be seen reprising in Sonic the Hedgehog 3, her minuscule-screen experience also integrates roles on Mixed-ish and Gossip Girl, among other series.
Perry’s other three films droping under his Amazon deal are Divorce in the Binestablishage and the upcoming Binestablishage, White, & Blue and Joy Ridge. Among other upcoming projects for the media mogul is the WWII drama The Six Triple Eight, starring Kerry Washington, which will be freed in pick theaters on December 6 before debuting on Netflix on December 20. Entering into a multi-year first-see film deal with that streamer last October, he is recurrented by WME and Johnson Shapiro Slesoakedt & Kole.
Sumpter is repped by UTA, Brookside Artist Management, and Hansen Jacobson Teller; Webb by Linden Entertainment, Gersh, and Jackoway Austen Tyerman; Gancigo inberg by WME and Edelstein Laird & Sobel; Godfrey by Innovative Artists and The Arsee Group; Berruti by Marina Masowietsky Management; Layrea by Steinberg Talent Management and STW Talent Agency; Blue by CAA, Mosaic, and Goodman, Genow, Schenkman; Chatprosper by Oscars Abrams Zimel & Associates and Innovative Artists; and Coutinho by Rothman Brecher Ehrich Livingston and attorney Chris Abramson.
