EXCLUSIVE: Monarch Media, 11x Primetime Emmy winner Julia Louis-Dreyfus, Point Grey Pictures, Lylas Pictures and Giant Ant Films are teaming to convey Sarah Leavitt’s graphic novel Tangles: A Story About Alzheimer’s, My Mother and Me, to the massive display as a feature-length animated movie.
Along with Louis-Dreyfus, the solid contains Abbi Jacobson, Bryan Cranston, Samira Wiley, Beanie Feldstein, Seth Rogen, Wanda Sykes, Bowen Yang, Pamela Adlon and Sarah Silverman.
In Tangles, when Alzheimer’s illness begins to strip away her mom’s vibrant persona, a headstrong younger lady is compelled to return to her oddball household within the conservative small city she lately fled with the intention to take care of her. She shortly realizes she should settle for the merciless and warped actuality of the illness – and the imperfect fantastic thing about her household – with the intention to change into the daughter they want.
Leavitt tailored her novel for movie together with Trev Renney and Leah Nelson.
Giant Ant Co-Founder Leah Nelson is directing. Producers embody Vicky Patel, Steve Barnett and Alan Powell by means of Monarch Media, Alex McAtee, James Weaver and Madeline Blair by means of Seth Rogen and Evan Goldberg’s Point Grey Pictures, Leah Nelson and Ross Murray by means of Giant Ant Films and Lauren Miller Rogen, Jen Ray and Sophie Hoegh by means of LYLAS Pictures, and Louis-Dreyfus.
Patel, Rogen and Miller Rogen are longtime Alzheimer’s activists, having been affected by the illness in very private methods. Patel’s late father was identified with the illness in 2003, inspiring her to change into one of many nation’s main fundraisers for mind science analysis. She was honored with the Alzheimer’s Foundation’s Jerome H. Stone Philanthropy Award, one of many group’s highest honors.
Miller Rogen misplaced her grandmother, grandfather, and mom to the illness. After her mom was identified with younger-onset Alzheimer’s at age 55, Miller Rogen and her husband based Hilarity for Charity (HFC), a nationwide non-profit group that cares for households impacted by Alzheimer’s illness, evokes the following technology of Alzheimer’s advocates, and leads a nationwide mind well being schooling effort for younger individuals. To date, HFC has raised $23M to assist household caregivers, mind well being schooling, and prevention analysis. The group has granted over 427K hours of in-home care aid to unpaid, household caregivers of these with Alzheimer’s or a associated dementia.
“Everyone involved cares deeply about this story and, in many cases, brings personal experiences that allow us to be brave and authentic as we make a dark comedy about this merciless disease,” says Nelson. “Not only are our cast members the funniest human beings on the planet, they are also the most thoughtful and caring, and have brought so much heart into their portrayals of these characters. We’ve cried and laughed until we cried at every recording. So far, it has been surreal and I’m so excited to bring it into animated life.”
“When we founded Monarch a few years ago it was with this type of project in mind,” provides Patel: “a film that address a difficult subject like Alzheimer’s in a way that takes away some of the fear of the disease while also showing the love, light, and levity that never really goes away. To have Seth and Lauren as partners on this, with their immense personal and professional experience is incredibly fulfilling.”
UTA Independent Film Group and CAA Media Finance organized financing for the movie and co-represent the pic’s world distribution rights.
Louis-Dreyfus is repped by CAA and Latham & Watkins. Rogen is repped by UTA, Principal Entertainment, and Felker Toczek Suddleson Abramson McGinnis Ryan.