Maude Apatow And Mike Faist To Star In ‘The Maid Of Orleans’

EXCLUSIVE: Maude Apatow and Mike Faist are set to star in The Maid of Orleans, Sarah Elizabeth Mintz’s follow-up to Good Girl Jane. Mintz penned the script that she will also direct. Astute Films is financing the pic.

The film follows a young woman who navigates her new job by assisting a famously talented and complicated director on a French production of Joan of Arc. Shooting begins this week.

Mintz will produce along with Shuli Harel and Jeff David.

Up next, Apatow will make her feature directorial debut with Poetic License, starring Cooper Hoffman, Andrew Barth Feldman, and Leslie Mann. The film, also produced by Apatow under her Jewelbox Pictures banner, first premiered at the Toronto International Film Festival to rave reviews, followed by a well-received screening at South by Southwest. It was recently acquired by Sony Pictures Classics and will release next spring. Apatow is perhaps best known for her performance as Lexi Howard on HBO’s acclaimed Emmy and BAFTA-nominated series Euphoria, which recently concluded its three-season run. Apatow is represented by WME, Mosaic, Ziffren Brittenham.

Faist is coming off rave reviews in the limited series East of Eden, which bowed last week on Netflix. The series also stars Florence Pugh and Christopher Abbott. He is repped by WME and Brillstein Entertainment Partners.