Ansel Elgort and Shirley MacLaine to Star in Road Trip Comedy LUCY BOOMER From PRETTY IN PINK Director Howard Deutch
Ansel Elgort (Baby Driver, The Fault in Our Stars) and Oscar winner and Hollywood legend Shirley MacLaine (Steel Magnolias, Terms of Endearment) are teaming up for a new road trip comedy titled Lucy Boomer, from director Howard Deutch (Pretty in Pink, Some Kind of Wonderful).
Based on the novel by Russell Hill, the film was penned by Ron Cutler and Mark Steven Johnson. Principal photography is slated to begin in February in New Mexico.
Lucy Boomer follows Jack Ritchie (Elgort), a down-and-out writer moonlighting as a community college instructor who thinks he’s finally found his big break when 93-year-old Lucy Boomer (MacLaine) — a former secretary, and perhaps more, to four U.S. Presidents — agrees to an interview for his book.
In exchange for her revealing journals, Jack helps Lucy escape her Santa Fe nursing home and drive her home to North Dakota. Along the way, they pick up Anna, a free-spirited hitchhiker who disrupts their uneasy companionship.
But their unlikely road trip takes an unexpected turn when a local detective sets out to track them down.
International Film Trust (IFT) is handling worldwide rights, with sales president Christian de Gallegos introducing the project to buyers this week at the American Film Market.
via: Variety