EXCLUSIVE: Lionsgate and MRC‘s Matthew Broderick-Alan Ruck comedy The Best Is Yet to Come has Emmy and 2x Tony winner Mary-Louise Parker, 2x Tony winner Sutton Foster, Thomas Mann and Michaela Wakins joining the cast of the Jon Turteltaub directed film.
The Best Is Yet to Come, written by Allan Loeb, follows two lifelong best friends who set out to make up for lost time after a massive misunderstanding convinces each that the other is dying. Deadline first told you about the movie which reps the reteam of Ferris Bueller Day Off stars Broderick and Ruck.
Amy Baer is producing the film through her Gidden Media banner. Dimitri Rassam is also producing; he previously produced the 2019 French film on which the new movie is based. Loeb will also serve as an EP.
Lauren Bixby is overseeing for Lionsgate.
Parker recently starred in the MGM+ horror series The Institute based on the novel by Stephen King. She won a supporting actress miniseries/movie Emmy for the HBO movie Angels in America, two Tonys for Best Actress in Play, one for Proof and the other for The Sound Inside, and a Golden Globe win for Best Actress Comedy series for Weeds. Parker is represented by CAA.
Foster most recently starred in the Broadway revivals of Once Upon a Mattress and The Music Man. She previously won two Tonys for her performances in Anything Goes and Thoroughly Modern Millie, and she is set to star as country music superstar Loretta Lynn in a new Broadway adaptation of Coal Miner’s Daughter. Foster led Darren Star and TV Land’s Younger for seven seasons and has appeared in The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel and Bunheads for Amy Sherman-Palladino. Foster is represented by CAA.
Mann most recently appeared in the film Sovereign opposite Nick Offerman, Jacob Tremblay, and Dennis Quaid. He also co-starred opposite Brie Larson in Apple TV+’s series Lessons in Chemistry and as Johnny Buss in the Emmy-nominated series Winning Time. He is represented by UTA, Amplified, and Hansen, Jacobson, Teller, Hoberman, Newman, Warren, Richman, Rush, Kaller, Gellman, Meigs & Fox.
Watkins most recently recurred on the Emmy-winning series Hacks. She also starred opposite Julia Louis-Dreyfus in A24’s You Hurt My Feelings, written and directed by Nicole Holofcener. She is represented by Gersh, Haven Entertainment, and Felker Toczek Suddleson McGinnis Ryan LLP.
