{"id":423686,"date":"2026-04-29T16:39:14","date_gmt":"2026-04-29T16:39:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/423686\/"},"modified":"2026-04-29T16:39:14","modified_gmt":"2026-04-29T16:39:14","slug":"chris-evans-joins-jessica-chastain-chris-pine-in-darling-california","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/423686\/","title":{"rendered":"Chris Evans Joins Jessica Chastain, Chris Pine In ‘Darling California’"},"content":{"rendered":"

\n\tEXCLUSIVE: Avengers and Materialists star Chris Evans<\/a> is joining the crime-thriller My Darling California<\/a>, the next project for writer-director Elijah Bynum (Magazine Dreams).<\/p>\n

\n\tAs we 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

\n\tEvans takes over from previously announced Josh Brolin in the movie, with the latter dropping out due to scheduling.<\/p>\n

\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

\n\tAnton is fully financing the film and will continue international sales on the project at the upcoming Cannes<\/a> market. Anton and CAA Media Finance co-represent U.S. and global rights. <\/p>\n

\n\tProducing are David Hinojosa (Materialists), Alex Coco (Anora) and S\u00e9bastien Reybaud (Greenland). Zach Nutman will be executive producing.<\/p>\n

\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 & Cunningham; Madison by UTA, Authentic Talent and Literary and Sloane Offer Weber & Dern; Cheadle by UTA; and Melton by 111 Media, CAA and Johnson Shapiro Slewett & 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…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":423687,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[32],"tags":[47241,180878,321,7209,93,61,60,185506],"class_list":["post-423686","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-celebrities","tag-cannes","tag-cannes-market","tag-celebrities","tag-chris-evans","tag-entertainment","tag-ie","tag-ireland","tag-my-darling-california"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/423686","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=423686"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/423686\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/423687"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=423686"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=423686"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=423686"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}