EXCLUSIVE: Following the conclusion of Severance‘s buzzy second season, John Turturro has come aboard to star in The Only Living Pickpocket in New York, a new crime thriller that Noah Segan wrote and is directing for MRC and T-Street, with the former financing and the latter producing.
Currently in production in New York City, the film follows Harry (Turturro), a career pickpocket who is forced into a desperate, high-stakes race against time through the streets of his city. Producers for T-Street are Leopold Hughes, Katie McNeil, and Ben LeClair.
An Emmy winner and Golden Globe nominee, Turturro currently stars in Apple’s most-watched series, Severance, the pop culture phenomenon from Dan Erickson and Ben Stiller, which just wrapped its second season and was promptly renewed for a third. In addition to Emmy and Golden Globe nominations for his turn as Macrodata Refinement worker Irving, he recently landed an Emmy nom for his work in the first season of Prime Video’s Mr. & Mrs. Smith. In film, recent credits include Pedro Almodóvar’s The Room Next Door, Guillermo del Toro’s Pinocchio, and the role of Carmine Falcone in Matt Reeves’ The Batman.
A longtime friend and collaborator of T-Street principal Johnson’s, dating back to the latter’s debut feature Brick, Segan has appeared in nearly all of the director’s work, from his Peacock murder mystery comedy Poker Face to films like Looper and Star Wars: Episode VIII – The Last Jedi. As a director, his credits include a couple of horror projects for Shudder: the vampire flick Blood Relatives, in which he also stars, and a segment of the anthology film Scare Package.
For indie studio MRC, other upcoming projects include Wuthering Heights — a reteam with Saltburn‘s Emerald Fennell — as well as Cathy Yan’s The Gallerist and the second season of Poker Face, starring Natasha Lyonne.
In addition to Poker Face Season 2, T-Street has Wake Up Dead Man — the anticipated third film in Johnson’s Knives Out franchise — coming out this year.
Turturro is repped by UTA and attorney George Sheanshang; Segan by attorney Stephen Clark of Lichter, Grossman, Nichols.
