The first trailer for Ella McCay, a new comedy drama starring Emma Mackey and Jack Lowden, has officially landed.
Arriving in cinemas on 12 December, the film is set in 2008 and follows Ella (Mackey), a thriving young politician, as she attempts to balance the highs and lows of her ever-complicated family life with her flourishing career.
Boasting a stacked cast, Jamie Lee Curtis, Kumail Nanjiani, Ayo Edebiri, Woody Harrelson, Rebecca Hall and Julie Kavner also appear.
James L Brooks, the Academy Award-winning writer and filmmaker behind As Good as It Gets (1997) and Spanglish (2004), directs.
A major milestone, Ella McCay will mark Brooks' first film in over a decade, after helming 2010's How Do You Know, starring Reese Witherspoon, Paul Rudd, Owen Wilson and Jack Nicholson.
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Speaking about his latest project, Brooks told The Hollywood Reporter: "I came from a family that wasn't roses and warm bread, and so I wanted it to be about one errant parent and getting over the loss of a parent. I never want to do anything that's not a comedy, and I always want to represent life."
Revealing how Mackey secured the titular role, he added, "I was in an audition process for a long time.
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"I went to London, and very late in the game, she turned up, and that was it. In my mind, I pictured the kind of heroines that we had in the '50s and '60s, early Katharine Hepburn and Rosalind Russell.
"There's a certain kind of great movie star we used to have, and Emma has a lot of those same qualities."
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This has been a busy year for Mackey. Ahead of Ella McCay's release, the actor recently led the cast of Hot Milk, and she's also poised to appear in the horror film Alpha, which is coming to French theatres on 20 August. A limited theatrical release in North America is also in the pipeline for October.
Ella McCay will arrive in cinemas on 12 December.
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