Sarah Pidgeon is in talks to join Kevin Costner and Jake Gyllenhaal in Honeymoon With Harry for Amazon MGM Studios.
Pidgeon is coming off a star turn as Carolyn Bessette in Ryan Murphy’s FX series Love Story: John F. Kennedy Jr. & Carolyn Bessette. Her other credits include Sony’s I Know What You Did Last Summer, David Siegel’s The Friend, and performing the role of Diana in the Broadway production of Stereophonic.
Glenn Ficarra and John Requa are directing Honeymoon With Harry from a script by Dan Fogelman. The trio was behind the dramedy Crazy, Stupid, Love and worked together on the Fogelman-created Hulu series Paradise. Amazon MGM earlier landed the rights to the long-in-the-works feature dramedy, and set Costner and Gyllenhaal to star.
The film, based on the book by Bart Baker, follows “a rough-around-the-edges man who ends up sharing an unwanted journey with his fiancée’s prickly, overprotective father after a life-altering turn upends their plans. Against the backdrop of an island honeymoon, the two men clash and bicker before gradually uncovering an unexpected bond in this emotional dramedy,” according to a logline from the producers.
Gyllenhaal’s character goes on the honeymoon with his would-be father-in-law, played by Costner, after his fiancée dies two days before their wedding. Producer credits on Honeymoon With Harry are shared by Fogelman, Mike Karz and Jennifer Salke. The film will mark Salke’s first project with Amazon MGM and her producing debut under her Sullivan Street Productions banner.
Pidgeon is represented by Gersh and Anonymous Content.
