Jenny Slate will star in and produce The Sunlit Night with Tony Award winner Alex Sharp.
German director David Wnendt will helm the Norway-set drama, which also stars Zach Galifianakis, Gillian Anderson, and Jessica Hecht.
The movie is adapted from Rebecca Dinerstein’s debut novel, published by Bloomsbury in 2015.
The pic is a co-production between Deetailfilm in Germany and Ape&Bjørn in Norway, where filming will take place this summer. Producing alongside Slate are Fabian Gasmia and Ruben Thorkildsen, with Michael B. Clark and Alex Turtletaub on the U.S. side.
Set between New York City and the far north of Norway, The Sunlit Night follows American painter Frances (played by Slate) and émigré Yasha (Sharp) — an unlikely pair who find each other in the Arctic circle. Frances has arrived to jumpstart her career while Yasha has come to bury his father in the land of the Vikings. Together under a sun that never quite sets, they let go of the past and discover the future, and family, they didn’t know they had.
She already shot her scenes in Coney Island, New York (pictures 1, 2 and 3 above).
Finally we have an update on her next indie movie: UFO. According to IMDb, Derek (Alex Sharp) a brilliant college student, haunted by a childhood UFO sighting, believes that mysterious sightings reported at multiple airports across the United States are UFO's. With the help of his girlfriend, Natalie (Ella Purnell), and his advanced mathematics professor, Dr. Hendricks (X-Files' Gillian Anderson), Derek races to unravel the mystery with FBI special agent Franklin Ahls (David Strathairn) on his heels (still from the movie with Gillian and Alex: picture 4, and apparently this is the second movie they've been doing together).
Gillian Anderson and Asa Butterfield are set to star in new original Netflix eight-part British dramedy Sex Education. He will star as awkward teenager Otis Milburn, whose mother Jean’s job as a sex therapist proves surprisingly handy when it comes to earning kudos at school. Otis and classmate Maeve (played by Emma Mackey) set up an “underground sex therapy clinic to deal with their fellow students’ weird and wonderful problems”.
Check Gillian in new trailer for The Spy Who Dumped Me, coming to theaters August 3.
Sources: Variety, Daily Mail, Radio Times, IMDb