{"id":892552,"date":"2026-06-25T20:37:12","date_gmt":"2026-06-25T20:37:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/892552\/"},"modified":"2026-06-25T20:37:12","modified_gmt":"2026-06-25T20:37:12","slug":"new-daniels-event-film-adds-michael-gandolfini-to-the-cast","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/892552\/","title":{"rendered":"New Daniels Event Film Adds Michael Gandolfini To The Cast"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto     \">\n\t<strong>EXCLUSIVE: <\/strong><a href=\"https:\/\/deadline.com\/tag\/michael-gandolfini\/\" id=\"auto-tag_michael-gandolfini\" data-tag=\"michael-gandolfini\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Michael Gandolfini<\/a> has joined the ensemble cast of the upcoming untitled event pic from filmmaking duo Daniels at Universal. <a href=\"https:\/\/deadline.com\/tag\/matt-damon\/\" id=\"auto-tag_matt-damon\" data-tag=\"matt-damon\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Matt Damon<\/a> is on board to star.\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/deadline.com\/tag\/daniels\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Daniels<\/a>, aka Daniel Kwan\u00a0and Daniel Scheinert, will write and direct. Sandra Oh, Sean Kaufman and Charles Melton are also on board.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto     \">\n\tUniversal had no comment on the casting.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto     \">\n\tDetails on the project remain under wraps. Kwan, Scheinert and Jonathan Wang will produce through their company Playgrounds\u2019 overall deal with Universal. Playgrounds\u2019 Kwan and Wang recently produced\u00a0The AI Doc: Or How I Became an Apocaloptimist\u00a0from Universal\u2019s specialty studio Focus Features. It bowed in March.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto     \">\n\tGandolfini had tested for some of the younger roles in the film that are essentially leading the project but was ultimately deemed too old for the role. The Daniels walked away so impressed with his audition that they would end up offering him another part in the project instead.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto     \">\n\tExecutive VP Production Development Sara Scott and Director of Production Development Jacqueline Garell will oversee the Daniels\u2019 new project for Universal.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto     \">\n\tGandolfini was most recently seen reprising his role in season two of the Disney+ series Daredevil: Born Again. He was also recently seen in the Alex Gardland and Ray Mendoza A24 war pic Warfare.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto     \">\n\tHe is repped by WME and Untitled Entertainment.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"EXCLUSIVE: Michael Gandolfini has joined the ensemble cast of the upcoming untitled event pic from filmmaking duo Daniels&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":892553,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[33],"tags":[185,140116,171,49069,361827,67,132,68],"class_list":["post-892552","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-celebrities","tag-celebrities","tag-daniels","tag-entertainment","tag-matt-damon","tag-michael-gandolfini","tag-united-states","tag-unitedstates","tag-us"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/892552","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=892552"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/892552\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/892553"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=892552"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=892552"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=892552"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}