"Stranger Things" and Ghostbusters: Afterlife star Finn Wolfhard and Billy Bryk (When You Finish Saving the World) will direct Hell of a Summer, which is based on their original script, Variety reports this week.
Wolfhard, Bryk, and Fred Hechinger ("The White Lotus", The Woman in the Window) will also star in the contemporary horror-comedy, with plot details being kept under wraps.
Hechinger, Aggregate Films’ Jason Bateman, Michael Costigan, and Parts and Labor’s Jay Van Hoy will produce the film, with principal photography beginning this month in Ontario, Canada.
Production company 30WEST, who's slate also includes the forthcoming reimagining of The Crow, is fully financing, executive producing the film and co-representing the worldwide rights alongside CAA Media Finance.
"I am so excited to be co-directing my first feature film," says Wolfhard said. "I get the chance to work with an incredible cast and crew, and to work with a company like 30WEST and Aggregate is a real dream."
Wolfhard is best known for his starring roles as Mike Wheeler in the critically acclaimed Netflix Original Series "Stranger Things" and Richie Tozier in New Line Cinema’s It and It: Chapter Two, which together have grossed over $1.2 billion at the box office. He recently starred in Jason Reitman’s Ghostbusters: Afterlife for Columbia Pictures.
Releasing later this year, Wolfhard will co-star alongside Oscar winner Julianne Moore in the A24 comedy-drama feature When You Finish Saving the World, written and directed by Jesse Eisenberg and produced by Emma Stone. He lends his voice to the all-star cast in Oscar winner Guillermo del Toro’s stop-motion animated musical film Pinocchio, which will premiere on Netflix. Lastly, he completed production on the A24 fantasy epic film The Legend of Ochi, opposite Willem Dafoe, which is in post-production.
In 2020, Wolfhard made his directorial debut with his first short film Night Shifts. The short was accepted into the Fantasia Film Festival, where it received the Silver Audience Award for "Best Canadian Short." It was also accepted to both the Calgary International Film Festival and The Barcelona International Short Film Festival and screened at the prestigious TIFF Next Wave Film Festival. You can watch it below.
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