EXCLUSIVE: Monarch Media, 11x Primetime Emmy winner Julia Louis-Dreyfus, Level Gray Footage, Lylas Footage and Large Ant Movies are teaming to carry Sarah Leavitt’s graphic novel Tangles: A Story About Alzheimer’s, My Mom and Me, to the large display as a feature-length animated movie.
Together with Louis-Dreyfus, the solid consists of Abbi Jacobson, Bryan Cranston, Samira Wiley, Beanie Feldstein, Seth Rogen, Wanda Sykes, Bowen Yang, Pamela Adlon and Sarah Silverman.
In Tangles, when Alzheimer’s illness begins to strip away her mom’s vibrant character, a headstrong younger lady is pressured to return to her oddball household within the conservative small city she not too long ago fled with a view to take care of her. She shortly realizes she should settle for the merciless and warped actuality of the illness – and the imperfect great thing about her household – with a view to grow to be the daughter they want.
Leavitt tailored her novel for movie together with Trev Renney and Leah Nelson.
Large Ant Co-Founder Leah Nelson is directing. Producers embody Vicky Patel, Steve Barnett and Alan Powell by way of Monarch Media, Alex McAtee, James Weaver and Madeline Blair by way of Seth Rogen and Evan Goldberg’s Level Gray Footage, Leah Nelson and Ross Murray by way of Large Ant Movies and Lauren Miller Rogen, Jen Ray and Sophie Hoegh by way of LYLAS Footage, and Louis-Dreyfus.
Patel, Rogen and Miller Rogen are longtime Alzheimer’s activists, having been affected by the illness in very private methods. Patel’s late father was recognized with the illness in 2003, inspiring her to grow to be one of many nation’s main fundraisers for mind science analysis. She was honored with the Alzheimer’s Basis’s Jerome H. Stone Philanthropy Award, one of many group’s highest honors.
Miller Rogen misplaced her grandmother, grandfather, and mom to the illness. After her mom was recognized with younger-onset Alzheimer’s at age 55, Miller Rogen and her husband based Hilarity for Charity (HFC), a nationwide non-profit group that cares for households impacted by Alzheimer’s illness, evokes the subsequent era of Alzheimer’s advocates, and leads a nationwide mind well being training effort for younger folks. To this point, HFC has raised $23M to help household caregivers, mind well being training, and prevention analysis. The group has granted over 427K hours of in-home care aid to unpaid, household caregivers of these with Alzheimer’s or a associated dementia.
“Everybody concerned cares deeply about this story and, in lots of circumstances, brings private experiences that permit us to be courageous and genuine as we make a darkish comedy about this cruel illness,” says Nelson. “Not solely are our solid members the funniest human beings on the planet, they’re additionally probably the most considerate and caring, and have introduced a lot coronary heart into their portrayals of those characters. We’ve cried and laughed till we cried at each recording. Thus far, it has been surreal and I’m so excited to carry it into animated life.”
“When we based Monarch a couple of years in the past it was with this sort of venture in thoughts,” provides Patel: “a movie that deal with a troublesome topic like Alzheimer’s in a manner that takes away among the worry of the illness whereas additionally displaying the love, gentle, and levity that by no means actually goes away. To have Seth and Lauren as companions on this, with their immense private {and professional} expertise is extremely fulfilling.”
UTA Impartial Movie Group and CAA Media Finance organized financing for the movie and co-represent the pic’s world distribution rights.
Louis-Dreyfus is repped by CAA and Latham & Watkins. Rogen is repped by UTA, Principal Leisure, and Felker Toczek Suddleson Abramson McGinnis Ryan.