{"id":133320,"date":"2025-11-13T17:58:14","date_gmt":"2025-11-13T17:58:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/133320\/"},"modified":"2025-11-13T17:58:14","modified_gmt":"2025-11-13T17:58:14","slug":"ansel-elgort-shirley-maclaine-to-star-in-road-trip-comedy-lucy-boomer","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/133320\/","title":{"rendered":"Ansel Elgort, Shirley MacLaine to Star in Road Trip Comedy Lucy Boomer"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto  lrv-a-font-body-m   \">\n\t<a href=\"https:\/\/variety.com\/t\/ansel-elgort\/\" id=\"auto-tag_ansel-elgort\" data-tag=\"ansel-elgort\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Ansel Elgort<\/a> (\u201cBaby Driver\u201d) is getting behind the wheel again, this time with Oscar winner and Hollywood legend <a href=\"https:\/\/variety.com\/t\/shirley-maclaine\/\" id=\"auto-tag_shirley-maclaine\" data-tag=\"shirley-maclaine\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Shirley MacLaine<\/a> (\u201cSteel Magnolias\u201d). The two are set to star together in \u201cLucy Boomer,\u201d a road trip comedy from director <a href=\"https:\/\/variety.com\/t\/howard-deutch\/\" id=\"auto-tag_howard-deutch\" data-tag=\"howard-deutch\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Howard Deutch<\/a> (\u201cPretty in Pink,\u201d \u201cSome Kind of Wonderful\u201d).<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto  lrv-a-font-body-m   \">\n\tInternational Film Trust (IFT) is handling worldwide rights, with sales president Christian de Gallegos introducing the project to buyers this week at the American Film Market.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto  lrv-a-font-body-m   \">\n\tBased on the novel by Russell Hill, the film was penned by Ron Cutler and Mark Steven Johnson. Principal photography is slated to begin in February in New Mexico.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto  lrv-a-font-body-m   \">\n\t\u201cLucy Boomer\u201d follows Jack Ritchie (Elgort), a down-and-out writer moonlighting as a community college instructor who thinks he\u2019s finally found his big break when 93-year-old Lucy Boomer (MacLaine) \u2014 a former secretary, and perhaps more, to four U.S. Presidents \u2014 agrees to an interview for his book. In exchange for her revealing journals, Jack helps Lucy escape her Santa Fe nursing home and drive her home to North Dakota. Along the way, they pick up Anna, a free-spirited hitchhiker who disrupts their uneasy companionship. But their unlikely road trip takes an unexpected turn when a local detective sets out to track them down.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto  lrv-a-font-body-m   \">\n\tProduced by Dan Grodnik (\u201cFast Charlie,\u201d \u201cHeist\u201d), \u201cLucy Boomer\u201d also counts Alan Mintz (\u201cWe Broke Up\u201d), Mike Marcus (\u201cThe Ward\u201d), Johnson (\u201cGrumpy Old Men\u201d) and International Film Trust co-founder and Benaroya Pictures CEO Michael Benaroya (\u201cLawless\u201d) among its producing team. <\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto  lrv-a-font-body-m   \">\n\t\u201cWe couldn\u2019t be more excited to add \u2018Lucy Boomer\u2019 to our slate,\u201d said Michael Benaroya. \u201cIt has all the ingredients distributors will love: a moving story, a terrific director in Howie Deutch, a stellar lead in Ansel Elgort, and, of course, the legendary Shirley MacLaine.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto  lrv-a-font-body-m   \">\n\tElgort is repped by CAA and Brookside Artist Management and MacLaine is repped by CAA. Johnson is repped by Michael Kagan at Range Media Partners.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Ansel Elgort (\u201cBaby Driver\u201d) is getting behind the wheel again, this time with Oscar winner and Hollywood legend&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":133321,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[67876,91430,156,91431,409,111,139,69,21847],"class_list":{"0":"post-133320","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-movies","8":"tag-afm","9":"tag-ansel-elgort","10":"tag-entertainment","11":"tag-howard-deutch","12":"tag-movies","13":"tag-new-zealand","14":"tag-newzealand","15":"tag-nz","16":"tag-shirley-maclaine"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/133320","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=133320"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/133320\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/133321"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=133320"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=133320"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=133320"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}