{"id":459995,"date":"2026-04-29T17:29:12","date_gmt":"2026-04-29T17:29:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/459995\/"},"modified":"2026-04-29T17:29:12","modified_gmt":"2026-04-29T17:29:12","slug":"chris-evans-joins-jessica-chastain-chris-pine-in-darling-california","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/459995\/","title":{"rendered":"Chris Evans Joins Jessica Chastain, Chris Pine In &#8216;Darling California&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto     \">\n\t<strong>EXCLUSIVE<\/strong>: Avengers and Materialists star <a href=\"https:\/\/deadline.com\/tag\/chris-evans\/\" id=\"auto-tag_chris-evans\" data-tag=\"chris-evans\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Chris Evans<\/a> is joining the crime-thriller <a href=\"https:\/\/deadline.com\/tag\/my-darling-california\/\" id=\"auto-tag_my-darling-california\" data-tag=\"my-darling-california\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">My Darling California<\/a>, the next project for writer-director Elijah Bynum (Magazine Dreams).<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto     \">\n\tAs we<a href=\"https:\/\/deadline.com\/2025\/11\/jessica-chastain-chris-pine-charles-melton-darling-california-1236609311\/\" data-type=\"post\" data-id=\"1236609311\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\"> told you last fall<\/a>, the movie will star Jessica Chastain (Zero Dark Thirty), Chris Pine (Star Trek franchise), Mikey Madison (Anora), Charles Melton (May December) and Don Cheadle (Ocean\u2019s franchise).<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto     \">\n\tEvans takes over from previously announced Josh Brolin in the movie, with the latter dropping out due to scheduling.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto     \">\n\tSet in Los Angeles 1980, the film will chart how a single crime weaves together the lives of a TV host, his restless wife, a country music idol, two small-time crooks and an ex-con, all of whom are chasing the promise of a better life. Filming is being lined up for late summer\/September.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto     \">\n\tAnton is fully financing the film and will continue international sales on the project at the upcoming <a href=\"https:\/\/deadline.com\/tag\/cannes\/\" id=\"auto-tag_cannes\" data-tag=\"cannes\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Cannes<\/a> market. Anton and CAA Media Finance co-represent U.S. and global rights. <\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto     \">\n\tProducing are David Hinojosa (Materialists), Alex Coco (Anora) and S\u00e9bastien Reybaud (Greenland). Zach Nutman will be executive producing.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto     \">\n\tEvans is represented by CAA, Untitled Entertainment, and Jason Sloane; Bynum is represented by CAA, Kaplan\/Perrone Entertainment and Myman Greenspan Fox; Chastain by CAA, Mosaic and Hansen Jacobson; Pine by CAA, Brillstein Entertainment Partners and Gendler, Kelly &amp; Cunningham; Madison by UTA, Authentic Talent and Literary and Sloane Offer Weber &amp; Dern; Cheadle by UTA; and Melton by 111 Media, CAA and Johnson Shapiro Slewett &amp; Kole.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"EXCLUSIVE: Avengers and Materialists star Chris Evans is joining the crime-thriller My Darling California, the next project for&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":459996,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[268],"tags":[10404,199290,434,4100,18,117,19,17,202428],"class_list":{"0":"post-459995","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-celebrities","8":"tag-cannes","9":"tag-cannes-market","10":"tag-celebrities","11":"tag-chris-evans","12":"tag-eire","13":"tag-entertainment","14":"tag-ie","15":"tag-ireland","16":"tag-my-darling-california"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@ie\/116489182805400513","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/459995","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=459995"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/459995\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/459996"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=459995"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=459995"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=459995"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}