{"id":166799,"date":"2025-11-06T22:26:07","date_gmt":"2025-11-06T22:26:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/166799\/"},"modified":"2025-11-06T22:26:07","modified_gmt":"2025-11-06T22:26:07","slug":"wood-harris-yakov-smirnoff-didi-conn-join-mark-wahlberg-apple-film","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/166799\/","title":{"rendered":"Wood Harris, Yakov Smirnoff & Didi Conn Join Mark Wahlberg Apple Film"},"content":{"rendered":"

\n\tEXCLUSIVE:<\/strong> Apple<\/a> Original Films\u2019 untitled Stephen Chbosky dramedy starring Mark Wahlberg has added four new cast members: Wood Harris<\/a> (One Battle After Another), Mark Linn-Baker<\/a> (Ghosts), Yakov Smirnoff<\/a> (Night Court), and Didi Conn<\/a> (Best Medicine).<\/p>\n

\n\tCharacter details are under wraps.<\/p>\n

\n\tDeveloped and produced by Apple Studios, the film is based on 2023\u2019s Weekend Rebels, an original German-language sports dramedy based on the true story of Mirco and Jason von Juterzcenka. The story follows a father and his autistic son, who wants to find a favorite Premier League soccer club and makes his father take him to see every single team so he can decide. Sources say this version takes place in the NBA given ties to The SpringHill Company, which is producing with Plan B.<\/p>\n

\n\tChbosky is directing from his own script, with Indie DesRoches and Vera Farmiga also starring.<\/p>\n

\n\tThe film is being produced by Dede Gardner and Jeremy Kleiner for Plan B, as well as Spencer Beighley, LeBron James, and Jamal Henderson for SpringHill. SpringHill co-founder Maverick Carter is exec producing along with Michelle Wilens. The film is being made in association with Wiedemann & Berg Film, whose Quirin Berg and Max Wiedemann also exec produce.<\/p>\n

\n\tThe original film was also produced by Wiedemann & Berg Film, part of Leonine Studios, written by Richard Kropf and directed by Marc Rothemund. Wiedemann & Berg and Leonine are Mediawan companies.<\/p>\n

\n\tKnown for roles in The Wire, Remember the Titans, Ant-Man, Southland Tales and more, Harris is coming off roles in Paul Thomas Anderson\u2019s One Battle After Another and Netflix\u2019s Forever. He is repped by Artists First and Gersh.<\/p>\n

\n\tRecently, Linn-Baker has been seen on shows like Ghosts, Succession, She-Hulk: Attorney at Law, and Chicago Med. He is repped by Paradigm.<\/p>\n

\n\tSmirnoff is a well-known Soviet-American comedian and actor whose screen credits include Dice, King of the Hill, and Night Court, to name a few. He is repped by the Kinkead Entertainment Agency.<\/p>\n

\n\tKnown for her role as Frenchy in the Grease films, Conn has recently been seen on shows like Overcompensating and Harlan Coben\u2019s Shelter and will be seen coming up in the Fox medical series Best Medicine. She is represented by Headline Talent Agency.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"EXCLUSIVE: Apple Original Films\u2019 untitled Stephen Chbosky dramedy starring Mark Wahlberg has added four new cast members: Wood…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":166800,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[268],"tags":[311,434,95909,18,117,19,17,95910,95911,95912],"class_list":{"0":"post-166799","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-celebrities","8":"tag-apple","9":"tag-celebrities","10":"tag-didi-conn","11":"tag-eire","12":"tag-entertainment","13":"tag-ie","14":"tag-ireland","15":"tag-mark-linn-baker","16":"tag-wood-harris","17":"tag-yakov-smirnoff"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@ie\/115505108438018278","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/166799","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=166799"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/166799\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/166800"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=166799"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=166799"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=166799"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}