EXCLUSIVE: Ali Afshar’s ESX Leisure has added Lou Diamond Phillips to Casa Grande: The Film which is the characteristic to the unique Amazon Prime Video 2023 sequence.
Casa Grande explores the intertwining lives of Northern California farmland households on the flip of the century, with an upstairs/downstairs tackle themes of sophistication, immigration, tradition, and household. The film continues the journey of the Clarkmans and the Morales households who proceed to battle and love over the land. The sequence was reated by Lauren Swickard, Ava Rettke and Afshar. The film is written by Juan Pablo Arias Muños, Swickard, Sherell Jackson and Alex Ranarivelo.
The La Bamba actor joins a forged that features Madison Lawlor, John Pyper Ferguson, Christina Moore, Javier Bolanos, Lauren Escandon, Daniel Mora, Kate Mansi in addition to new additions Lauren Swickard and Shalim Ortiz!
EP Afshar stated, “Suppose Yellowstone meets Downton Abbey however 25% in Spanish!”
Muños directs repping his second film for ESX, after final 12 months’s The Curse of the Necklace starring sisters Madeleine and Violet McGraw. Pic is produced by Ava Rettke, Christina Moore, Daniel Aspromonte and Afshar.
Phillips’s characteristic credit embody Stand and Ship, Younger Weapons, Braveness Underneath Hearth, Filly Brown and The Huge Hit with Mark Wahlberg. The 2x Emmy nominated and Golden Globe nominee’s sequence credit embody Prodigal Son, Longmire, SGU: Stargate Universe, Wolf Lake and recurring roles on Goliath with Billy Bob Thorton, Numb3rs, The Ranch, Brooklyn 99, and Blue Blood. He’ll subsequent be seen within the HBO comedy The Chair Firm premiering this 12 months.
Phillips earned a Tony nomination for Finest Actor for his function because the King within the Broadway revival of The King and I. He received the Unbiased Spirit Award for Finest Supporting Actor for Stand And Ship.
Phillips is repped by World Artists Company and Thurline Leisure.
