EXCLUSIVE: The Netflix pic The Fifth Whee, from Kim Kardashian and screenwriter Paula Pell is including much more star energy as sources inform Deadline Eva Longoria is about to direct with Gloria Sanchez approaching as producers of the highly-anticipated comedy. Kardashian is on board to star from a script by Pell and Janine Brito. Each Kardashian and Pell are producing together with Jessica Elbaum and Will Ferrell by way of their Gloria Sanchez banner in addition to Cris Abrego and Longoria although their Hyphenate Media Group.
Whereas plot particulars are being stored underneath wraps, insiders say Kardashian will play the eponymous “fifth wheel” alongside a feminine ensemble forged.
The undertaking has been a precedence ever for the reason that streamer landed the package deal over Thanksgiving weekend in 2023 following a really aggressive public sale. To nobody’s shock given Pell’s monitor document, the script has been described as one of many funnier scripts in a while by numerous patrons who had been concerned within the public sale and that stamp of approval was legitimatized with Gloria Sanchez instantly boarding the undertaking after it landed at Netflix.
The manufacturing firm has constructed a resume of not solely producing in style, hit comedies like Booksmart and Theater Camp however movies led by sturdy feminine expertise each in entrance and behind the digicam. As soon as Gloria Sanchez was board the following step was discovering a director and it quickly grew to become vital to all events to discover a feminine director to assist inform this story.
After a number of conferences, execs and producers landed on Longoria as the correct match to direct the movie following her critically-acclaimed, Flamin Scorching. The Searchlight biopic marked her first main studio directing job and blew the city after it premiered on the Toronto Movie Competition and rapidly earned sturdy reward particularly pointed at Longoria for her directing expertise .
Whereas that movie leaned extra on the dramatic finish, it definitely showcased loads of laughs and coronary heart and have become a giant promoting level for this pic.
As for Kardashian, this isn’t solely large performing job within the coming months because the trailer for her highly-anticipated Hulu sequence All’s Honest dropped to a giant response final week.
Longoria is repped by WME and Linden Leisure. Kardashian, Pell and Brito are additionally all repped by WME. Kardashian can be repped by Cooley LLP and Pell can be repped by Hansen, Jacobson, Teller, Hoberman, Newman, Warren, Richman, Rush, Kaller & Gellman, LLP and Brito can be repped by. Cohen & Gardner.
