{"id":17130,"date":"2025-06-26T19:53:09","date_gmt":"2025-06-26T19:53:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/17130\/"},"modified":"2025-06-26T19:53:09","modified_gmt":"2025-06-26T19:53:09","slug":"sophia-lillis-daniel-zolghadri-to-star-in-a24-movie","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/17130\/","title":{"rendered":"Sophia Lillis, Daniel Zolghadri To Star In A24 Movie"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto     \">\n\t<strong>EXCLUSIVE: <\/strong>After partnering with <a href=\"https:\/\/deadline.com\/tag\/a24\/\" id=\"auto-tag_a24\" data-tag=\"a24\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">A24<\/a> on her feature directorial debut, Janet Planet, Pulitzer and MacArthur Award-winning playwright <a href=\"https:\/\/deadline.com\/tag\/annie-baker\/\" id=\"auto-tag_annie-baker\" data-tag=\"annie-baker\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Annie Baker<\/a> is reteaming with the studio on <a href=\"https:\/\/deadline.com\/tag\/ancient-history\/\" id=\"auto-tag_ancient-history\" data-tag=\"ancient-history\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Ancient History<\/a>, a new film to star <a href=\"https:\/\/deadline.com\/tag\/sophia-lillis\/\" id=\"auto-tag_sophia-lillis\" data-tag=\"sophia-lillis\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Sophia Lillis<\/a> (I Am Not Okay with This) and <a href=\"https:\/\/deadline.com\/tag\/daniel-zolghadri\/\" id=\"auto-tag_daniel-zolghadri\" data-tag=\"daniel-zolghadri\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Daniel Zolghadri<\/a> (Funny Pages), which she\u2019ll direct from her own script.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto     \">\n\tPlot details are under wraps. Andrew Goldman will produce for Present Company, alongside Johnny Holland and Baker.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto     \">\n\tPremiering at Telluride, Baker\u2019s Janet Planet follows Lacy (Zoe Ziegler), an 11-year-old growing up in rural Western Massachusetts, over the course of the summer of 1991, as she observes her single mother Janet\u2019s (Julianne Nicholson) evolving relationships and the subtle shifts in their bond. The A24 drama earned  the New York Film Critics Circle\u2019s award for Best First Film, also receiving nominations for Best First Feature, Best First Screenplay, and Best Cinematography at the Independent Spirit Awards. Also known for her acclaimed full-length plays, Baker is repped by UTA.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto     \">\n\tIn addition to the Netflix coming-of-age series I Am Not Okay with This and Dungeons &amp; Dragons: Honor Among Thieves, Lillis is known for turns in the It films, HBO\u2019s Sharp Objects, Alan Ball\u2019s Uncle Frank, and Wes Anderson\u2019s Asteroid City. Upcoming, she will be seen in Tim Robinson\u2019s HBO comedy The Chair Company, the Peacock miniseries All Her Fault opposite Sarah Snook, and action thriller Trap House opposite Dave Bautista. She is repped by CAA, Untitled Entertainment, and Ryan Levine.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto     \">\n\tFirst garnering recognition for his work on a pair of A24 films \u2014 Bo Burnham\u2019s Eighth Grade and Owen Kline\u2019s Funny Pages, where he was the lead \u2014 Zolghadri will soon be seen starring opposite Rose Byrne in the dark comedy If I Had Legs I\u2019d Kick You, which drew rave reviews this year at Sundance, and the acclaimed thriller <a href=\"https:\/\/deadline.com\/2025\/04\/lurker-release-date-mubi-1236363386\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Lurker<\/a>, which was snapped up by Mubi following its launch at the same festival. He is repped by UTA and Circle Management + Production<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"EXCLUSIVE: After partnering with A24 on her feature directorial debut, Janet Planet, Pulitzer and MacArthur Award-winning playwright Annie&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":17131,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[33],"tags":[3028,16667,16668,185,16669,171,16670,67,132,68],"class_list":{"0":"post-17130","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-celebrities","8":"tag-a24","9":"tag-ancient-history","10":"tag-annie-baker","11":"tag-celebrities","12":"tag-daniel-zolghadri","13":"tag-entertainment","14":"tag-sophia-lillis","15":"tag-united-states","16":"tag-unitedstates","17":"tag-us"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/114751419498371511","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17130","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=17130"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17130\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/17131"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=17130"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=17130"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=17130"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}