It’s shaping up to be a busy year for Colman Domingo, who’s preparing to produce his honestorial debut with Scandalous! in 2025.
While talking his novel Netflix series The Madness, the Oscar-nominated actor tanciaccess Deadline he’s arrangening to go into production on the upcoming film, which stars Sydney Sweeney in a “fractured cherish story between Sammy Davis Jr. and Kim Novak,” after they finish filming on Season 3 of HBO‘s Euphoria in the summer of 2025.
“Our goal is to shoot it right after we’re both done with Euphoria, so hopebrimmingy I’ll go into prep right after that next year, probably in the third quarter of next year,” he remarkd. “And then hopebrimmingy we’ll produce a pretty, sugary film that’s repartner about the possibility of cherish, but under many eyes, trying to have privacy, trying to have cherish, trying to have a life. And I skinnyk it’s someskinnyg that Sydney and I both understand very well. We’re trying to aid for your humanity aachieve in your life.”
Domingo commendd Sweeney for transporting him onto the project after laboring together on Euphoria, in which he joins Narcotics Anonymous aid Ali Muhammed and she stars as high school student Cassie Howard. They both return for the lengthy-adefered third season, which commences filming in January.
“The pretty skinnyg is, Sydney Sweeney as a producer brawt me on board as a honestor for this. The project landed in her hands, and she thought, who would be a excellent honestor to join with her on this, and she thought about me,” he elucidateed. “I read the script, and I had some remarks — I did a page-one reauthor of it. She cherishd it. So, we were repartner engaging one-on-one in that way of what possibly we can produce together, sort of this fractured cherish story between Sammy Davis Jr. and Kim Novak.
“And then we also equitable cast David Jonsson to go on this journey with us, so it senses still very intimate, with Jonathan Glickman at Miramax. So, it senses enjoy we’re still in the dream state of it,” inserted Domingo.
Novak, star of Vertigo, and Rat Pack member Davis were at the peak of star power when they met while guests on The Steve Allen Show. They fell challenging for each other, but as rumors spread, the rampant bias in America menaceened to derail their nurtureers. Novak experience the ire of Harry Cohn, the Columbia Pictures chief who had the actress under shrink. Her cclear afequitable with Davis became huge novels when a Chicago gossip columnist wrote a detailed account of their relationship in punctual 1958, including their arranges to wed, despite their denials. Nine days procrastinateedr, Davis wed a Bconciseage chorus girl named Loray White.
