{"id":353904,"date":"2025-12-18T19:41:08","date_gmt":"2025-12-18T19:41:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/353904\/"},"modified":"2025-12-18T19:41:08","modified_gmt":"2025-12-18T19:41:08","slug":"matthew-mcconaughey-and-zoe-saldana-to-star-in-positano-for-netflix","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/353904\/","title":{"rendered":"Matthew McConaughey And Zoe Saldana To Star In ‘Positano’ For Netflix"},"content":{"rendered":"

\n\tEXCLUSIVE: Matthew McConaughey<\/a> and Zoe Salda\u00f1a<\/a> are in negotiations to star in the upcoming Netflix<\/a> pic Positano<\/a>. The film is in development with Tuner director Daniel Roher<\/a> on board to direct from a script by Alessandro Tanaka and Brian Gatewood. Working Title founders Eric Fellner and Tim Bevan will produce.<\/p>\n

\n\tPlot details are being kept under wraps other than it being described as a romantic caper set in the Italian town the film is named after. Amelia Granger\u00a0will exec produce for Working Title as well as Tanaka and Gatewood.<\/p>\n

\n\tWorking Title landed the hot spec after Tanaka and Gatewood took it to market, with Roher boarding the film as director shortly after. In recent weeks the script landed in front of McConaughey and Salda\u00f1a, who immediately were drawn to the story and quickly attached to star. Once the two were on board, Netflix landed the package with plans to fast-track it into production when the deals are closed.<\/p>\n

\n\tRELATED: \u2018The Lost Bus\u2019 Review: \u2018Speed\u2019 Goes To Hell In Paul Greengrass\u2019s Intense Real-Life Wildfire Drama \u2013 Toronto Film Festival<\/a><\/p>\n

\n\tAfter taking a break from acting for the past couple of years, McConaughey made his return this fall with the acclaimed Apple thriller The Lost Bus. The film premiered at the Toronto Film Festival and earned McConaughey strong reviews for his portrayal of a school bus driver who heroically saved a group of children during the 2018 fires in Paradise, CA.<\/p>\n

\n\tPositano marks a reunion for Salda\u00f1a and Netflix after the A-lister\u2019s performance in Emilia P\u00e9rez earned her the Best Supporting Actress Oscar<\/a> back in March. Next up, she has James Cameron\u2019s Avatar: Fire and Ash, which opens this weekend worldwide.<\/p>\n

\n\tRELATED: James Cameron And Sam Worthington On Their \u2018Avatar: Fire And Ash\u2019 Collaboration, The Declining Box Office And The Real Truth About AI<\/a><\/p>\n

\n\tRoher is best known for 2022\u2019s Navalny, which won the Academy Award for Best Documentary Feature<\/a>, the BAFTA Award for Best Documentary and Sundance\u2019s Festival Favorite Award. His debut narrative feature Tuner, a crime thriller he wrote and directed, stars Dustin Hoffman, Leo Woodall and Havana Rose Liu. The film premiered at this year\u2019s Telluride Film Festival and showed at TIFF shortly after to rave reviews.<\/p>\n

\n\tMcConaughey is repped by WME and Yorn Levine Barnes. Saldana is repped by CAA, LBI Entertainment and Yorn Levine Barnes. Roher is repped by UTA and Gang Tyre Ramer. Tanaka and Gatewood are repped by UTA, Entertainment 360 and Hansen Jacobson Teller,<\/p>\n

\n\tRELATED: The Movies That Have Made More Than $1 Billion At The Global Box Office<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"EXCLUSIVE: Matthew McConaughey and Zoe Salda\u00f1a are in negotiations to star in the upcoming Netflix pic Positano. The…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":353905,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[32],"tags":[49,48,361,61880,75,52472,1316,153358,109680],"class_list":["post-353904","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-celebrities","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-celebrities","tag-daniel-roher","tag-entertainment","tag-matthew-mcconaughey","tag-netflix","tag-positano","tag-zoe-saldau00f1a"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/353904","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=353904"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/353904\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/353905"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=353904"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=353904"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=353904"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}