{"id":540950,"date":"2025-11-01T00:45:24","date_gmt":"2025-11-01T00:45:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/540950\/"},"modified":"2025-11-01T00:45:24","modified_gmt":"2025-11-01T00:45:24","slug":"molly-ringwald-levar-burton-cast-in-one-night-only-movie","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/540950\/","title":{"rendered":"Molly Ringwald &#038; LeVar Burton Cast In &#8216;One Night Only&#8217; Movie"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto     \">\n\t<a href=\"https:\/\/deadline.com\/tag\/molly-ringwald\/\" id=\"auto-tag_molly-ringwald\" data-tag=\"molly-ringwald\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Molly Ringwald<\/a> (Feud: Capote and the Swans) and <a href=\"https:\/\/deadline.com\/tag\/levar-burton\/\" id=\"auto-tag_levar-burton\" data-tag=\"levar-burton\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">LeVar Burton<\/a> (Roots, Reading Rainbow) have joined the cast of <a href=\"https:\/\/deadline.com\/tag\/universal-pictures\/\" id=\"auto-tag_universal-pictures\" data-tag=\"universal-pictures\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Universal Pictures<\/a>\u2019 <a href=\"https:\/\/deadline.com\/tag\/one-night-only\/\" id=\"auto-tag_one-night-only\" data-tag=\"one-night-only\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">One Night Only<\/a>, which hits theaters on August 7, 2026. They join the previously announced leads <a href=\"https:\/\/deadline.com\/2025\/08\/monica-barbaro-callum-turner-one-night-only-will-gluck-1236481748\/\" data-type=\"post\" data-id=\"1236481748\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Monica Barbaro and Callum Turner<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto     \">\n\tThe screenplay is a rewrite of <a href=\"https:\/\/deadline.com\/2024\/12\/the-black-list-2024-movies-1236199672\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Travis Braun\u2019s Black List script<\/a> about two strangers who scramble to find someone to sleep with on the one night of the year when premarital sex is legal, by Will Gluck, who also directs. It\u2019s as unknown whether Gluck\u2019s version will stray from the original premise.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto     \">\n\tRingwald will play Turner\u2019s mom, with Burton as her partner, sources tell Deadline.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto     \">\n\tGluck will produce through Olive Bridge Entertainment. Jacqueline Monetta, VP Olive Bridge Entertainment, will oversee and also produce. Universal\u2019s Senior EVP Production Development Erik Baiers and Director of Production Development Jacqueline Garell will oversee for the studio.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto     \">\n\tRingwald\u2019s recent credits include Ryan Murphy\u2019s Feud: Capote and the Swans, his Netflix miniseries Monster: The Jeffrey Dahmer Story, the Emmy-winning FX series The Bear, the CW\u2019s Riverdale and the independent feature Bad Things, which premiered at the Tribeca Film Festival. Known for the iconic 1980s John Hughes films Pretty in Pink, The Breakfast Club and Sixteen Candles, Ringwald began her film career in Paul Mazursky\u2019s Tempest, later starring in The Pick-Up Artist, For Keeps, Fresh Horses and Betsy\u2019s Wedding, among many others. She is repped by Barking Dog Entertainment and Untitled Entertainment.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto     \">\n\tEmmy-winning actor, director, producer and podcaster Burton is the host and executive producer of Trivial Pursuit for Lionsgate, Hasbro and the CW. He is known for his decades-long commitment to storytelling, education and cultural impact through his work on Reading Rainbow, which earned more than 200 broadcast awards including multiple Emmys and a Peabody. As a performer, he first captured national attention with his iconic portrayal of Kunta Kinte in the landmark miniseries Roots, and went on to star as Geordi La Forge on Star Trek: The Next Generation. He is repped by WME.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Molly Ringwald (Feud: Capote and the Swans) and LeVar Burton (Roots, Reading Rainbow) have joined the cast of&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":540951,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3940],"tags":[4080,77,174251,13340,174252,16,15,17981],"class_list":{"0":"post-540950","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-celebrities","8":"tag-celebrities","9":"tag-entertainment","10":"tag-levar-burton","11":"tag-molly-ringwald","12":"tag-one-night-only","13":"tag-uk","14":"tag-united-kingdom","15":"tag-universal-pictures"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/115471681360916956","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/540950","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=540950"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/540950\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/540951"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=540950"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=540950"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=540950"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}