EXCLUSIVE: Kumail Nanjiani (The Big Sick) and SNL alum Molly Shannon have signed on to star in Driver’s Ed, the teen road trip comedy from director Bobby Farrelly (Champions) on which we were first to report in December.
Set to enter production in North Carolina in March, with AGC Studios co-producing and fully financing, Driver’s Ed centers on a group of teens who steal their school’s driver’s ed car to go on a road trip to help a high school senior track down his college-freshman girlfriend and win her back.
AGC International launched sales at the European Film Market in Berlin last week, with additional castings to be announced soon.
Farrelly — one half of famed comedy filmmaking duo The Farrelly Brothers — will direct from an original screenplay by Thomas Moffett. Producers include Jonas Pate (Outer Banks, Amazon’s upcoming The Runarounds), Jennifer Pate (Amazon’s upcoming The Runarounds), and David Stone, co-founder of TFC Management and TFC Productions. Exec producers include AGC’s Stuart Ford and Aghi Koh, Lorelle Lynch, Farrelly and Scott Lambert (The Killer’s Game, Tár).
Coming off of roles in Only Murders in the Building and Ghostbusters: Frozen Empire, Nanjiani will next be seen in Poker Face Season 2, James L. Brooks’ Ella McCay, and Dylan Meyer’s recently announced Neon drama The Wrong Girls opposite Kristen Stewart and Alia Shawkat. He is repped by UTA, Mosaic, and Schreck Rose Dapello.
Also recently seen on Only Murders, Shannon’s other upcoming projects include Balls Up, Peter Farrelly’s action comedy for Amazon MGM and Skydance, in which she stars alongside Mark Wahlberg and Paul Walter Hauser, as well as Netflix and 3000 Pictures’ rom-com People We Meet on Vacation. She is repped by UTA, Framework Entertainment, and Hansen, Jacobson, Teller.
AGC EVP of Legal & Business Affairs Anant Tamirisa negotiated deals for AGC Studios.
