{"id":603564,"date":"2026-09-17T20:08:18","date_gmt":"2026-09-17T20:08:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/603564\/"},"modified":"2026-09-17T20:08:18","modified_gmt":"2026-09-17T20:08:18","slug":"wyatt-russell-joins-john-carroll-lynch-comedy-happy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/603564\/","title":{"rendered":"Wyatt Russell Joins John Carroll Lynch Comedy ‘Happy’"},"content":{"rendered":"

\n\tThunderbolts* and Disclosure Day star Wyatt Russell<\/a> has joined the cast of John Carroll Lynch\u2019s upcoming comedy Happy.<\/p>\n

\n\tHe will appear as Roger alongside Sex Education alum Asa Butterfield<\/a> and 1917\u2018s Mark Strong<\/a>, with Kyra Sedgwick (The Closer), Brittany O\u2019Grady (The White Lotus) and Patti Harrison (Together Together) also starring.<\/p>\n

\n\tThe feature follows Myles (Butterfield) into a \u201cspectacularly dysfunctional introduction to his girlfriend\u2019s family,\u201d a plot synopsis reads. \u201cA shotgun fired at a birthday cake, a voyeuristic mother, a seductive sister, a disarmingly decent ex-boyfriend, way too much booze and nowhere near enough boundaries. What starts as an awkward introduction quickly becomes a test of just how far Myles is willing to go for the woman he loves.\u201d<\/p>\n

\n\tWritten by Ira Steven Behr (Outlander), Happy marks Lynch\u2019s second feature as director, following his 2017 debut Lucky with Harry Dean Stanton and David Lynch.<\/p>\n

\n\t\u201cWyatt is such a perfect fit for Roger \u2014 his insight on the role is so exciting,\u201d said Lynch on Thursday. \u201cHe has such passion for the project and the part. We couldn\u2019t be happier to have him.\u201d<\/p>\n

\n\tThe film is set to begin principal photography in March, 2027 in the U.S.<\/p>\n

\n\tRussell comes to Happy amid a run of high-profile projects. He reprised his MCU role as John Walker\/U.S. Agent in the recent blockbuster Thunderbolts* and is set to return in the hotly anticipated Avengers: Doomsday. He became a central figure in Apple and Legendary\u2019s MonsterVerse through Monarch: Legacy of Monsters, with other credits including Black Mirror and Broke. Most recently, he appeared opposite Emily Blunt in Steven Spielberg\u2019s alien thriller Disclosure Day. Russell is also currently filming Birdwatcher, a Monarch spinoff centered on his character, Lee Shaw.<\/p>\n

\n\tHappy is produced by Claude Dal Farra and Brian Keady of BCDF Pictures (To Leslie, The Hating Game), alongside Richard Kahan and Behr. Embankment is handling global sales.<\/p>\n

\n\t\u201cWyatt joining Happy is hugely exciting for us. He has such a distinctive presence \u2014 funny, charismatic and completely authentic \u2014 and we couldn\u2019t be more excited to see him alongside this remarkable cast in John\u2019s hands,\u201d said producer Claude Dal Farra.<\/p>\n

\n\tRussell is repped by UTA. Butterfield is repped by CAA and Independent Talent Group. Strong is repped by WME and Markham, Froggatt and Irwin. Sedgwick is repped by CAA and Range Media Partners. O\u2019Grady is repped by CAA and Suskin\/Karshan. Harrison is repped by UTA and 3 Arts. Lynch is repped by Suskin\/Karshan. Behr is repped by Untitled.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Thunderbolts* and Disclosure Day star Wyatt Russell has joined the cast of John Carroll Lynch\u2019s upcoming comedy Happy.…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":603565,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[32],"tags":[184906,430,156,223405,111,139,69,64046],"class_list":["post-603564","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-celebrities","tag-asa-butterfield","tag-celebrities","tag-entertainment","tag-mark-strong","tag-new-zealand","tag-newzealand","tag-nz","tag-wyatt-russell"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/603564","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=603564"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/603564\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/603565"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=603564"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=603564"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=603564"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}