Klein, Prinze harmonizing for 'Serenade'
'Serenade' talks
July 26, 2006
Chris Klein and Freddie Prinze Jr. will star and Jamie-Lynn Sigler is in final negotiations to co-star in "New York City Serenade."
The movie is loosely inspired by a bittersweet period in the life of actor-filmmaker Frank Whaley, who wrote and is directing.
The Manhattan-based comedy is set in the mid-1990s and revolves around two close friends who realize that sometimes to keep a friend you have to grow up and grow apart.
Prinze plays Owen, an aspiring filmmaker suffering in a job at the neighborhood photomat. The one good thing he has going in his life is his relationship with his fiancee, Lynn (Sigler). Owen's childhood friend Ray (Klein) is a drummer, ex-husband and father who plays the dive bar circuit, often for drunken crowds prone to violence.
The best friends' relationship is unexpectedly strained when Owen is accepted to a film festival, and the two meet actor Wallace Shawn -- who plays himself in the movie -- at the airport. Shawn invites the friends to join him at the Four Seasons, quite a step up from their reservations at the Motor Lodge, when Owen finds out that Ray has begun posing as Shawn's son. The two get into a fight and part ways indefinitely until an unexpected reunion 18 months later.
Also cast in supporting roles are Alexander Chaplin ("Spin City"), Heather Bucha ("The Jimmy Show") and newcomer Ben Schwartz (Upright Citizens Brigade). Whaley also plays a small role.
Rachel Peters is producing through Archer Entertainment. Also overseeing the $2 million picture scheduled for a 20-day location shoot in New York is Jim Jones. Lynn Appelle is line producing.
Whaley hired cinematographer Brain Samuel to shoot the movie, having been impressed with his photography on "Steel City"; Miran Miosic ("The Jimmy Show") is editing. Ed Harcourt is overseeing the original songs and score, including a cover of the film's namesake Bruce Springsteen song.
Whaley next stars as a heroic paramedic in Oliver Stone's upcoming "World Trade Center" and as a sports commentator in the upcoming ABC/ESPN movie "Ruffian."
The movie is loosely inspired by a bittersweet period in the life of actor-filmmaker Frank Whaley, who wrote and is directing.
The Manhattan-based comedy is set in the mid-1990s and revolves around two close friends who realize that sometimes to keep a friend you have to grow up and grow apart.
Prinze plays Owen, an aspiring filmmaker suffering in a job at the neighborhood photomat. The one good thing he has going in his life is his relationship with his fiancee, Lynn (Sigler). Owen's childhood friend Ray (Klein) is a drummer, ex-husband and father who plays the dive bar circuit, often for drunken crowds prone to violence.
The best friends' relationship is unexpectedly strained when Owen is accepted to a film festival, and the two meet actor Wallace Shawn -- who plays himself in the movie -- at the airport. Shawn invites the friends to join him at the Four Seasons, quite a step up from their reservations at the Motor Lodge, when Owen finds out that Ray has begun posing as Shawn's son. The two get into a fight and part ways indefinitely until an unexpected reunion 18 months later.
Also cast in supporting roles are Alexander Chaplin ("Spin City"), Heather Bucha ("The Jimmy Show") and newcomer Ben Schwartz (Upright Citizens Brigade). Whaley also plays a small role.
Rachel Peters is producing through Archer Entertainment. Also overseeing the $2 million picture scheduled for a 20-day location shoot in New York is Jim Jones. Lynn Appelle is line producing.
Whaley hired cinematographer Brain Samuel to shoot the movie, having been impressed with his photography on "Steel City"; Miran Miosic ("The Jimmy Show") is editing. Ed Harcourt is overseeing the original songs and score, including a cover of the film's namesake Bruce Springsteen song.
Whaley next stars as a heroic paramedic in Oliver Stone's upcoming "World Trade Center" and as a sports commentator in the upcoming ABC/ESPN movie "Ruffian."
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