Theatre Camp’s breakout director, Molly Gordon, is now set to helm Small Parts for Searchlight Pictures.
What’s Happening:
- Searchlight Pictures is continuing their relationship with Molly Gordon.
- As Deadline reports, Gordon is developing Small Parts for the studio.
- Small Parts is a new adaptation of 1987’s hit comedy Outrageous Fortune.
- The film will be directed by Gordon and co-written with Allie Levitan.
- Outrageous Fortune starred Bette Midler and Shelly Long.
- The new film will explore the clash of two actresses on the set of an indie film and is promised to be even more outrageous than the original.
- Production is being overseen by Searchlight SVP of Production Taylor Friedman.
- Previously, Searchlight acquired the breakout indie film Theatre Camp (which Gordon co-wrote, co-directed, and starred in) for $8 million at Sundance in 2023.
- Molly Gordon is currently starring as “Claire” in FX/Hulu’s The Bear, where she received a Screen Actors Guild award for best ensemble.
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