Following up with the Netflix pandemic plan, Apple TV+ is planning to bypass every fall festival and released a major Oscar contender straight-to-streaming this fall. Sofia Coppola’s “On the Rocks,” starring Bill Murray and Rashida Jones, has officially been set with an October release date (with newly released stills available via EW).
“On the Rocks” marks the first time Coppola and Murray have collaborated since their acclaimed 2003 film, “Lost in Translation.” In a new interview with EW, Coppola spoke about the upcoming film, her first since 2017’s “The Beguiled” and why it took so long for her to reunite with Murray on a new project:
“I never thought I could do something with Bill again, because people have such a fondness of him and ‘Lost in Translation,’” she explained. “I could never recreate something like that, so I never wanted to touch it. But, all this time has passed, and I loved working with him and I love seeing him in film. We haven’t really seen him as this debonair, playboy father at this stage [of life], so I just had to get over it because now we’re in a different phase [of life].”
Murray and Jones play father and daughter, she’s married to Marlon Wayans, a successful businessman who consistently travels and has a beautiful assistant. Murray’s dad, a sophisticated playboy type, gets Jones paranoid that her husband may be cheating. Together, they go on a little spying adventure in New York City over martinis and small talk.
“On the Rocks,” is set to debut in theaters and Apple TV+, courtesy of A24 and Apple Original Films, in October.