Lawrence Kasdan’s latest project, Darling Companion, has found a home with Sony Pictures Classics. Kasdan co-wrote the film with Meg Kasdan, and he produced and directed the project which is currently in post-production.
Kevin Kline, Diane Keaton, Dianne Wiest, Richard Jenkins, Elisabeth Moss, Mark Duplass, Ayelet Zurer, and Sam Shepherd star in Darling Companion, with Anthony Bregman and Elizabeth Redleaf producing. Christine Walker, Meg Kasdan, and John Kelly executive produced.
Sony Picture Classics is anticipating a 2012 release of the film.
“Over nearly two decades, Sony Pictures Classics have been championing original and creative films with great sensitivity,” says Elizabeth Redleaf, CEO of Werc Werk Works. “I can’t imagine a better home for the wonderful talents of Lawrence Kasdan and his terrific cast.”
“The moment we heard Lawrence Kasdan was making an independent film we wanted to become involved. He and Meg Kasdan have written a seamless screenplay full of rich characters played by some of America’s finest actors. Darling Companion promises to be the kind of warm, engaging movie audiences are clamoring to see right now. Producers Elizabeth Redleaf and Anthony Bregman are exceptional at what they do and we are thrilled to be in business with them and, of course, finally with the estimable Larry Kasdan,” states Sony Pictures Classics.
The Plot: “In Darling Companion, Beth (Keaton) saves a bedraggled lost dog from the side of the freeway on a wintry day in Denver. Struggling with her distracted, self-involved husband Joseph (Kline) and an empty nest at home, Beth forms a special bond with the rescued animal. When Joseph loses the dog after a wedding at their vacation home in the Rockies, the distraught Beth enlists the help of the few remaining guests and a mysterious young woman (Zurer) in a frantic search.
Each member of the search party is affected by the adventure, which takes them in unexpected directions – comic, harrowing, and sometimes deeply emotional.”
