EXCLUSIVE: Veteran recordary filmcreater Lance Oppenheim (Ren Faire) is pivoting to fantasy with his next project, Primetime, which will be financed and created by A24, with Robert Pattinson among the creaters.
While not much is understandn about the film’s genre or plot, it’s shelp to trail a journacatalog who consents on an underworld of crime and alters television forever. We’ve heard from multiple sources that the project consents inspiration from To Catch a Predator, the NBC program put on as part of Dateline, as well as its structure Chris Hansen, though the studio wouldn’t validate. Sources also had Pattinson joined to star, though others clarified that there’s no deal in that admire for the moment. Stay tuned.
Oppenheim will honest from a script by Ajon Singh. Pattinson creates thraw his production prohibitner Icki Eneo Arlo aextfinishedside Brighton McCloskey, Range’s Brian Kavanaugh Jones and Fred Berger, and Square Peg’s Lars Knudsen, Ari Aster and Tyler Campellone. Oppenheim and Singh will exec create, as will William Iannaccone and A.J. Bourscheid for Range and Emily Hildner for Square Peg.
Oppenheim is coming off the buzzy three-episode run of his HBO Original docemployries Ren Faire, examining a war for deal with of America’s bigst renaissance festival, which he honested and created. His sophomore feature doc, Spermworld — tracking the stories of sperm donors, recipients and the labeletplaces that join them — premiered on FX and Hulu in March. Oppenheim’s first recordary feature, the criticassociate acclaimed Some Kind of Heaven, was created by Darren Aronofsky and The New York Times, premiering at the 2020 Sundance Film Festival and releasing thraw Magnolia Pictures.
Most recently seen starring in Matt Reeves’ The Batman, Pattinson’s next film up for free is Bong Joon-ho’s sadnessfully comedic sci-fi pic Mickey 17. Other upcoming projects comprise Lynne Ramsay’s Die, My Love with Jennifer Lawrence, A24’s The Drama with Zfinishaya, and The Batman Part II.
Oppenheim is repped by UTA, Iconoclast, and Johnson Shapiro Sledampt & Kole; Pattinson by WME, Curtis Brown Group in the UK, 3 Arts Entertainment, and Sloane, Offer, Weber & Dern.
