Cannes Market: Emilia Jones, Toby Wallace Team Up for Romance Film ‘Charlie Harper’
Picture Perfect Federation is getting ready to launch the sale at the Cannes market of the upcoming film Charlie Harper, which has CODA star Emilia Jones and Babyteeth‘s Toby Wallace attached to lead, Deadline reports, adding that internal buzz around the script and the how the overall package came together is very positive.
The story follows Harper (Emilia Jones) and Charlie (Toby Wallace) as two young people who leave their homes and move to the city to try to build a life together. Harper is an aspiring and ambitious chef, while Charlie is finding it hard to get himself on track; the difference between their end goals will eventually force them to grow apart. According to Deadline, the movie “will include jumps in time and changes in point-of-view to show how the couple are made for one another but also ask ‘is that enough?’”
Tom Dean wrote the script and is co-directing with Mac Eldridge. Picture Perfect Federation’s Patrick Wachsberger (who reunites with Twilight‘s Temple Hill and CODA‘s Emilia Jones) and Ashley Stern are producing, along with Little Ray Media’s Mallory Edens, and Temple Hill Entertainment’s Wyck Godfrey and Marty Bowen. Laura Quicksilver will executive-produce via Temple Hill as well.
Jones has been keeping herself busy since her breakout role in the Apple TV Plus Best Picture winner CODA, with two pics at this year’s Sundance Film Festival, Cat Person, an adaptation of the 2017 New Yorker viral short story that co-stars Succession‘s Nicholas Braun, and Fairyland, set against the backdrop of San Francisco’s AIDS epidemic. She is also set to lead Susana Fogel’s Winner, along with Zach Galifianakis And Connie Britton.
Wallace also has three movies in post-production, Kitty Green’s The Royal Hotel, led by Julia Garner and Jessica Henwick, Jeff Nichols’ The Bikeriders, with Jodie Comer, Austin Butler, and Tom Hardy, and Brian Helgeland’s Finestkind, also starring Jenna Ortega.
Dean has not directed a feature film yet, but has various projects set up at TriStar, Paramount and MRC; Eldridge has directed various commercials.
Miguel Fernández is a Spanish student that has movies as his second passion in life. His favorite movie of all time is The Lord of the Rings, but he is also a huge Star Wars fan. However, fantasy movies are not his only cup of tea, as authors like Scorsese, Fincher, Kubrick or Hitchcock have been an obsession for him since he started to understand the language of filmmaking. He is that guy who will watch a black and white movie, just because it is in black and white.
