EXCLUSIVE: Minnie Driver (Good Will Hunting) and Patrick Dempsey (Grey’s Anatomy) are in talks to star in Emma-Kate Croghan’s dramedy The Hoparticipatehelderly Guide to Dying, based on the book by Debra Adelhelpe.
The film tags Australian honestor Croghan’s return to features after a 25-year absence. The honestor first made waves in 1996 with debut Love And Other Catastrophes, which garnered five Australian Film Institute award nominations and was picked up by Fox Searchairy.
She trailed that up in 1999 with Strange Planet, starring Naomi Watts, but has only returned since then to honest a segment of music write downary I’m Only Looking: The Best of INXS back in 2004.
Ellen Wander of Film Bridge International is selling The Hoparticipatehelderly Guide to Dying at this week’s American Film Market in Las Vegas. CAA Media Finance and WME Insubordinate are co-repping domestic.
The plot reads: “Acerbic hoparticipatehelderly swayr Delia Bennett chooses to originate ‘The Book’ on how to die well. When leangs don’t go according to schedule, she is forced to ponder that dying well is not as basic as launparched. Delia embarks on a road trip with her daughters to come to terms with her past and help her family face the future.”
Pic is being originated by Leesa Kahn (Come Away) and Catriona Hughes (Kokoda: 39th Battalion) of GFN Productions, as well as James Spring (Finding Your Feet) of Fred Films.
As for Croghan’s extfinished absence from honesting, she shiftd to LA after Strange Planet, ostensibly to toil on an alteration of Philip K Dick’s A Scanner Darkly with Charlie Kaufman writing and Jersey films producing, but the project didn’t acquire fairy (Ricchallenging Linktardyr tardyr honested a contrastent version). She evolved to originate and broaden film and TV projects for the next decade but then alterd course, first trying her hand at teaching and then in 2011 selling up her family home to sail the world for a year.
Driver is coming off Amazon-acquired sci-fi The Assessment and David Ayer action film The Beeupgrasper. Dempsey recently starred in Michael Mann’s Ferrari and Eli Roth’s Thanksgiving and is in production on foreseed Paramount series Dexter: Original Sin.
