Mary-Louise Parker, Carrie-Anne Moss, Extra Set For Justine Bateman Movie ‘Face’ – Deadline

EXCLUSIVE: Mary-Louise Parker (Weeds), Carrie-Anne Moss (The Matrix franchise), Isabelle Fuhrman (The Novice) and Liana Liberato (To the Bone) have signed on to star in Justine Bateman’s upcoming characteristic Face, primarily based on her 2021 bestseller, Face: One Sq. Foot of Pores and skin.

The movie penned by Bateman consists of 14 vignettes, each comedic and dramatic, which have a look at girls’s faces getting older, and why that makes individuals indignant. Whereas a lot of society seems to imagine that ladies’s faces are one way or the other damaged and have to be fastened, Face reveals among the some ways by which girls, and people round them, enable this concept to take root in any respect.

Parker will play Tanya, an actress balancing her want to make use of her face for her job and the stress to not transfer it in any respect, with Moss as Mrs. Foster, a kindergarten instructor whose younger college students remind her of the magical performance of the face. Fuhrman is about for the function of Chris, a 30-year-old who’s shocked by the warnings of the approaching expiration of her attractiveness, with Liberato to painting Jenny, a waitress decided to succeed on her seems to be, whereas refusing the notion that these seems to be will ever change in any respect.

Face will enter manufacturing in Los Angeles in late fall, with Bateman producing below her Part 5 banner, together with Veronica Radaelli (Violet, 9 Bullets). Cassian Elwes (Mudbound, Dallas Consumers Membership) is serving because the venture’s govt producer, with Mary Vernieu and Bret Howe dealing with its casting.

Parker is an Emmy, Golden Globe and Tony Award winner finest recognized for activates collection together with Colin in Black and White, Mr. Mercedes, Billions, When We Rise, The Blacklist, Weeds, The West Wing and Angels in America, amongst others. The actress will subsequent be seen in Peter Hedges’ pandemic drama The Identical Storm, having additionally appeared in movies together with Crimson Sparrow, Golden Exits, RED and RED 2, Howl, Solitary Man, The Spiderwick Chronicles, The Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford, Saved!, The Portrait of a Girl, Bullets Over Broadway and Fried Inexperienced Tomatoes.

Greatest recognized for her function as Trinity in The Matrix franchise — which she reprised for final yr’s The Matrix Resurrections — Moss has additionally appeared in movies together with Knife Combat, Disturbia, The Chumscrubber, Chocolat and Memento, to call just a few. Notable tv credit embody Inform Me a Story, Jessica Jones, People and Vegas. The actress will even quickly be seen starring alongside Thomas Haden Church and Bruce Dern within the dramedy Chocolate Lizards, from director Mark Lambert Bristol.

Fuhrman is a Tribeca prize winner and Impartial Spirit Award nominee whose movie credit embody Orphan and its latest sequel Orphan: First Kill, in addition to such titles as Escape Room: Match of Champions, The Novice and The Starvation Video games. The actress has additionally been seen on Showtime’s Masters of Intercourse and can subsequent seem in options together with Jordan Gertner’s Sheroes for Paramount, Andy Tennant’s thriller Unit 234, Jonathan Sobol’s sci-fi pic Littlemouth and Kevin Costner’s Western, Horizon.

Liberato’s movie credit embody The Seashore Home, To the Stars, Banana Cut up, Measure of a Man, To the Bone, Novitiate, If I Keep, Hang-out, Caught in Love. and Belief. The actress has additionally been seen on such collection as A Million Little Issues and Gentle as a Feather, amongst others. Different upcoming tasks for Liberato embody Scream 6, Ok. Asher Levin’s thriller Dig, Nahnatchka Khan’s horror-comedy Completely Killer and Todd Bogin’s thriller Left with Solely Rain.

Bateman is an Emmy- and Golden Globe-nominated actor, filmmaker and creator whose characteristic directorial debut Violet, starring Olivia Munn, Luke Bracey and Justin Theroux, world premiered to crucial acclaim on the 2021 SXSW Movie Competition. She directed that title from her personal script, having additionally written, directed and produced the shorts PUSH and 5 Minutes. Bateman has additionally authored two bestselling books, titled Fame and Face, which had been printed by Akashic Books in 2018 and 2021, respectively.

Parker is represented by CAA and Untitled Leisure; Moss by Hodgson Administration Group and Kleinberg Lange Cuddy & Carlo; Fuhrman by UTA and Luber Roklin Leisure; Liberato by Revolutionary Artists, Leisure 360 and Yorn, Levine, Barnes; and Bateman by APA and Elevated Movies.