EXCLUSIVE: Rachel Morrison has come aboard to direct Love of Your Life for Amazon MGM Studios. Julia Cox wrote the script. Ryan Gosling and Jessie Henderson are producing.
Plot particulars are beneath wraps. Deadline was first to report the key script sale final fall after an intense bidding conflict. Quite a few bids have been proffered when CAA dropped the spec in town, and probably the most intriguing bids got here from Taylor Sheridan and Temple Hill’s Marty Bowen and Wyck Godfrey, who have been able to pay $2 million along with a greenlight and a theatrical launch, and a blind script deal. David Ellison’s Skydance acquired within the sport with them, assuming the bid so they may maintain their cash of their pockets. That movie would have gone by way of Paramount. No specifics but on how Amazon MGM sees how Love of Your Life might be launched, however we’ll replace after we know.
The movie reunites Morrison with Amazon MGM Studios as she most lately directed and govt produced The Fireplace Inside, which the studio launched theatrically in December. The story of boxing phenom Claressa Shields and the American dream versus the American actuality is Licensed Recent and Verified Scorching on Rotten Tomatoes, with 93% and 94% Tomatometer and Popcornmeter scores, respectively.
Morrison is an award-winning director and cinematographer who has constructed an in depth physique of labor, channeling every story’s core narrative into arresting imagery and dynamic emotion. For her work on Mudbound, Morrison grew to become the primary lady ever to be nominated for an Academy Award for Greatest Cinematography. She can also be the primary lady to lens a Marvel superhero film, the field workplace smash Black Panther. Morrison has directed The Morning Present for Apple TV+, Impeachment: American Crime Story for FX and The Mandalorian for Disney+. She additionally helmed the pilot of the STARZ collection Hightown. Morrison is represented by CAA, Vary Media Companions, and Johnson Shapiro Slowett & Kole
