EXCLUSIVE: Filmmaker Julia Hart (Miss Stevens) has set the cast for Don’t Say Good Luck, a new comedy for Netflix. Pic will star Melanie Lynskey (Yellowjackets), Max Greenfield (The Neighborhood), Stephanie Beatriz (Brooklyn Nine-Nine), Sunny Sandler (You Are So Not Invited to My Bat Mitzvah), Bebe Neuwirth (Cabaret at the Kit Kat Club), and Steve Buscemi (Boardwalk Empire).
Written by Laura Hankin, Hart & Jordan Horowitz, the film follows Sophie Birenbaum (Sandler), who is ready for the spotlight as the lead in her high school musical — until suddenly she’s living with even more drama at home than on the stage.
Horowitz will produce for Original Headquarters, alongside Brian Kavanaugh-Jones and Fred Berger for Range, and Happy Madison. Michael Roiff and Barry Weissler are EPs.
Previously, Sandler has appeared in films like You Are So Not Invited to My Bat Mitzvah, Kinda Pregnant, Spaceman, The Out-Laws, Hustle, Hubie Halloween, The Wrong Missy and Murder Mystery, among others. She’ll be seen coming up in Happy Gilmore 2 at Netflix and is repped by WME.
Prior to Don’t Say Good Luck, Hart has helmed features including the acclaimed dramedy Miss Stevens; genre-bender Fast Color starring Gugu Mbatha-Raw; Prime Video’s crime drama I’m Your Woman starring Rachel Brosnahan; and YA pics Stargirl and Hollywood Stargirl for Disney+. She and Horowitz are repped by CAA and Lichter, Grossman, Nichols.
Lynskey is repped by Gersh; Greenfield by UTA, Untitled Entertainment, and Johnson Shapiro Slewett & Kole; Beatriz by Gersh, Authentic Talent and Literary Management, and Goodman, Genow, Schenkman; Neuwirth by CAA; and Buscemi by UTA and Gotham Group.
