EXCLUSIVE: Director Chandler Levack (I Like Movies) has locked a starry cast for Roommates, a new ensemble comedy for Netflix. The call sheet will include Sarah Sherman (Saturday Night Live), Natasha Lyonne (Poker Face), Nick Kroll (Big Mouth), Sadie Sandler (You Are So Not Invited to My Bat Mitzvah), Chloe East (Heretic), and Storm Reid (The Last of Us).
In the film penned by Jimmy Fowlie and Ceara O’Sullivan of SNL, a hopeful, naive college freshman, Devon, asks the cool and confident Celeste to be her roommate, seeing a blossoming friendship spiral thereafter into a war of passive aggression. No word yet on who is producing.
Levack is a writer-director whose critically acclaimed coming-of-age dramedy I Like Movies premiered at the Toronto Film Festival in 2022. More recently, she wrote and directed Mile End Kicks, an upcoming rom-com set against Montreal’s indie music scene of 2011, which stars Jay Baruchel, Devon Bostick, Barbie Ferreira, Stanley Simons, and more. She is repped by WME, Artists First, and Gang, Tyre, Ramer.
Both Fowlie and O’Sullivan have earned multiple Emmy and WGA Award nominations for their work as writers on Saturday Night Live. O’Sullivan previously co-wrote and starred in the podcast series Petty Crimes, with Fowlie appearing in shows like English Teacher, The Other Two (on which he was also part of the writing staff), and Search Party. Fowlie is repped by WME, Mosaic, and Ginsburb Daniels Kallis; O’Sullivan by UTA, Ayala Cohen Management, and Bloch Law.
Sherman is repped by UTA, Rise Management, and Hansen, Jacobson, Teller; Lyonne by CAA, Untitled Entertainment, and Schreck Rose Dapello; Kroll by UTA, Rise Management, and Schreck Rose Dapello; Sandler by WME; East by WME, Link Entertainment, Vault Entertainment, and Felker Toczek Suddleson; and Reid by CAA, Entertainment 360, and Granderson Des Rochers.
On the film side, Netflix has also recently announced cast for titles like Don’t Say Good Luck, Unabom, the Kevin Hart comedy 72 Hours, and David Fincher’s The Adventures of Cliff Booth, to name just a few.
