EXCLUSIVE: Pierson Fodé (The Wrong Paris) and comedian-actor Matteo Lane have joined Lucy Hale in the upcoming romantic fantasy feature Vision Board, which is due to shoot in New York from January.
Directed by Peter Hutchings, who reunites with Hale after The Hating Game and Which Brings Me to You, the Morgan Matson script “follows Emerson Mills (Hale), a struggling fashion designer whose life has fallen far short of her dreams. After a disastrous day, Emerson drunkenly creates a vision board, only to wake up in an alternate reality where everything she ever wanted has come true. Suddenly, she’s a wildly successful designer living in a Malibu mansion with a glamorous lifestyle. But as she navigates her new reality, she finds herself drawn to Jase (Fodé), a charming stranger who challenges her idea of happiness. Along the way, her older brother Henry (Lane), a bestselling author with an outsized personality, helps Emerson discover that getting everything you want isn’t always what you need.”
Claude Dal Farra and Brian Keady are producing through BCDF Pictures. Arlie Day & Mike Page are casting. Concourse Media is handling worldwide sales and will finance alongside newly launched Archetype Media Finance. Sales continue at this week’s AFM.
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“Reuniting with Lucy and Peter is a real pleasure, and Pierson and Matteo couldn’t be more perfect for the roles of Jase and Henry. Vision Board has everything we love about romantic comedies — humor, heart, and a little magic. Beneath the fantasy of getting everything you’ve ever wished for is a story we can all relate to: discovering that what makes us truly happy isn’t always what we thought we wanted,” stated producer Claude Dal Farra of BCDF Pictures.
Fodé recently starred opposite Miranda Cosgrove in Netflix’s romantic comedy The Wrong Paris and appears in Robert Zemeckis’ upcoming thriller The Last Mrs. Parrish, alongside Jennifer Lopez. His credits also include Swiped opposite Lily James.
Lane is a comedian and actor currently in the middle of his third international stand-up tour, We Gotta Catch Up. He has sold out venues including Radio City Music Hall, Chicago Theater and the Kennedy Center. This summer, he had his Broadway debut as Billy Flynn in Chicago. Previous credits include Abbott Elementary and Amazon’s Maintenance Required.
Fodé is repped by Range, CAA, and Gang, Tyre. Lane is repped by OPE Partners and Granderson Des Rochers.
