Love-Wedding-Repeat

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Sam Claflin / Freida Pinto

UK-Italy romantic comedy Love, Wedding, Repeat has added Sam Claflin, Olivia Munn and Freida Pinto to its cast ahead of filming in May.

Dean Craig (Death At A Funeral) has written the screenplay and will direct the project, which follows a wedding where the table seating is rearranged with disastrous and humorous consequences. The film is a remake of 2012 French comedy Plan De Table.

Producers on the project are Guglielmo Marchetti (Black Butterfly) of Notorious Pictures and Piers Tempest (The Wife) of Tempo Productions. Jo Bamford and Andrea Borella serve as executive producers.

The film will shoot on location in Rome from May 6. Further cast include Joel Fry, Allan Mustafa, Jack Farthing, Tim Key and Aisling Bea.

Endeavor Content is handling worldwide sales.

Ahead of Cannes, Endeavor’s slate also features Shadow In The Cloud starring Chloë Grace Moretz, Bad Education starring Hugh Jackman and Allison Janney, Mosul produced by the Russo brothers, and Dev Patel’s directorial debut Monkey Man.

UK outfit Tempo’s upcoming productions include Normal People, starring Liam Neeson and Lesley Manville which is currently in post-production, and Military Wives starring Kristin Scott Thomas and Sharon Horgan, both are now in post-production.

Italian distribution and production company Notorious, which has credits including Eros Puglielli’s Copperman, is also working on The Shift, an Italy-Belgium thriller to be directed by Alessandro Tonda, which is in the late development/financing stage.