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\n\tEXCLUSIVE:\u00a0Black Bear is about to distribute and produce\u00a0Jonah, a function adaptation of the acclaimed Off-Broadway play by Rachel Bonds, to star Emmy and Golden Globe nominee Greta Lee (Previous Lives).<\/p>\n
\n\tAfter directing the stage manufacturing, which earned each an Obie Award and a Lucille Lortel Award for efficiency, and a Drama League Award nomination, Tony Award winner Danya Taymor is about to get behind the digicam for her function directorial debut.<\/p>\n
\n\tCooper Hoffman, the Golden Globe nominee contemporary off Gregg Araki\u2019s\u00a0I Need Your Intercourse, can be set to star, as are Lee\u2019s\u00a0Late Fame\u00a0co-star Edmund Donovan and Hagan Oliveras, who reprises the titular position he held Off-Broadway. Manufacturing is about to start in September.<\/p>\n
\n\tIn\u00a0Jonah, when a flood of reminiscences forces Ana (Lee) to revisit the defining relationships of her life, she should confront the reality behind the tales she\u2019s lengthy informed herself. Spanning 20 years and three transformative relationships, the movie is billed as a haunting portrait of affection, trauma, and resilience that explores how we make sense of the experiences that form us.<\/p>\n
\n\tThe present world premiered on the Laura Pels Theatre in New York Metropolis in February 2024, wrapping up a restricted engagement the next month. Bonds tailored the screenplay, with Oscar winner Tom McCarthy and Rae Baron set to provide through Gradual Pony. Holding worldwide rights, Black Bear will launch the movie domestically and introduce the undertaking to worldwide patrons at TIFF.<\/p>\n
\n\tMichael Heimler, Black Bear\u2019s President of Productions and Operations, commented: \u201cJonah\u00a0is the uncommon story that feels each deeply private and universally resonant. Rachel and Danya have crafted an unforgettable exploration of reminiscence, intimacy, and survival that’s as emotionally highly effective as it’s cinematic. Greta Lee is the right actor to carry Ana\u2019s journey to life, and we\u2019re thrilled to welcome this extraordinary movie to Black Bear\u2019s slate.\u201d<\/p>\n
\n\tRae Baron, Head of Growth and Manufacturing at Gradual Pony, shared: \u201cI first noticed\u00a0Jonah\u00a0throughout its Off-Broadway run and instantly felt it needed to be a movie. Rachel\u2019s writing is awfully grounded and accessible but particular, and the play\u2019s development is as formidable as it’s shifting \u2014 Danya Taymor\u2019s signature. We\u2019ve been decided to carry\u00a0Jonah\u00a0to the display ever since, and we\u2019re thrilled to be partnering with Black Bear and the fantastic Greta Lee and Cooper Hoffman to carry Rachel and Danya\u2019s imaginative and prescient to audiences worldwide.\u201d<\/p>\n
\n\tA screenwriter and author for scripted podcasts, in addition to a playwright, Bonds gained the Laurents\/Hatcher Basis Award for\u00a0Jonah\u00a0in 2024. Additionally a recipient of the L. Arnold Weissberger Award, the Sky Cooper Prize, and the Heideman Award, her different current initiatives embrace\u00a0The Lonely Few, with music and lyrics by Zoe Sarnak, which ran at MCC Theater and The Geffen Playhouse, and the Audible scripted collection\u00a0The Boar\u2019s Nest, starring Mandy Moore. She is repped by CAA, Curate, and Frankfurt Kurnit Klein & Selz.<\/p>\n
\n\tTwo years in the past, Taymor turned the youngest lady ever to win the Tony Award for Greatest Course of a Musical for her work on\u00a0The Outsiders. She most not too long ago earned a Tony nom for Greatest Course of a Play for\u00a0John Proctor Is the Villain, starring Sadie Sink, which is now in improvement as a function at Common with Taymor hooked up to direct. Her upcoming theater work consists of directing the Off-Broadway revival of\u00a0Spring Awakening\u00a0and\u00a0Born within the Filth\u00a0at Lincoln Middle Theater, the place she reunites with Tony-nominated playwright Kimberly Belflower. She is repped by CAA and Jackoway Austen Tyerman.<\/p>\n
\n\tLee earned Golden Globe and Unbiased Spirit Award nominations for her breakthrough efficiency in Celine Track\u2019s Academy Award-nominated A24 romantic drama\u00a0Previous Lives. Presently, she could be seen starring reverse Wagner Moura in\u00a0The Final Home, the Netflix horror movie from Louis Leterrier that introduced the streamer its fifth-biggest unique movie opening of the 12 months. She\u2019s additionally in theaters in the mean time with\u00a0Late Fame, the lauded Magnolia Footage drama from Kent Jones, the place she stars reverse Willem Dafoe. Upcoming, she has the third movie within the animated\u00a0Spider-Verse\u00a0franchise, in addition to\u00a0The Eyes Are the Greatest Half, an adaptation of the Monika Kim horror bestseller that she\u2019s tackling for Searchlight as writer-director. She is repped by UTA, Leisure 360, and Jackoway Austen Tyerman.<\/p>\n
\n\tBlack Bear, the embellished indie studio behind titles like\u00a0Practice Desires\u00a0and\u00a0Sing Sing, launched its U.S. distribution enterprise in July 2025, increasing a multinational theatrical enterprise that was already an trade chief within the U.Okay., Eire, and Canada, the place subsidiary Elevation Footage is the highest unbiased theatrical distributor. Subsequent up, on Oct. 23, they\u2019re set to launch\u00a0Wicker, a genre-bending comedic fable starring Olivia Colman, Alexander Skarsg\u00e5rd, and Peter Dinklage.<\/p>\n
\n\tHoffman is repped by WME; Donovan by UTA, Leisure 360, and Lichter Grossman Nichols; Oliveras by Artists & Representatives and Mara Leisure; and Gradual Pony by Gersh. Gersh and UTA Unbiased Movie Group repped the filmmakers within the negotiation with Black Bear.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n