An update on Cathy Yan’s “The Gallerist.”
Natalie Portman and Jenna Ortega were already announced to be part of Yan’s buzzy new film. I can now report that Da’vine Joy Randolph, Sterling K. Brown, Zach Galifianakis, Daniel Brühl and Catherine Zeta-Jones will be rounding out the cast. In addition to directing the film, Yan co-wrote the screenplay with James Pedersen.
Production on “The Gallerist” is set to begin next month in France. Details about the film are still scarce, but Deadline previously reported that the film would focus on a desperate gallerist who conspires to sell a dead guy at Art Basel Miami.
Yan’s debut was the 2018 Sundance indie “Dead Pigs.” Her last film was 2020’s “Birds of Prey,” which was part of the old DCU, and starred Margot Robbie — her only other directing credit since then was an episode of HBO’s “Succession.”