Netflix Picks Up Sundance Film ‘The Incredible Jessica James’Posted by Wilson Morales
January 24, 2017
Netflix has acquired worldwide rights to “The Incredible Jessica James,” the comedy starring Jessica Williams (The Daily Show) that will have its World Premiere at the Sundance Film Festival.
LaKeith Stanfield, Jessica Williams, Chris O?Dowd, Noel Wells and Jim Strouse
Deadline Hollywood Portraits at Sundance Presented by Applegate, Day 2, Park City, Utah, USA – 21 Jan 2017
Written and directed by Jim Strouse, the film stars Jessica Williams (The Daily Show) as a young, aspiring playwright in New York City who is struggling to get over a recent breakup. She is forced to go on a date with the recently divorced Boone, played by Chris O’Dowd, and the unlikely duo discover how to make it through the tough times in a social media obsessed post-relationship universe. Lakeith Stanfield, Noël Wells, and Sarah Jones co-star.
Playing as the Closing Night film of the festival, the film was produced by Michael B. Clark and Alex Turtletaub of Beachside and executive produced by Jessica Williams, Noël Wells, and Kerri Hundley.
Williams also appeared in Strouse’s “People Places Things.” Before leaving in 2016, Williams was The Daily Show’s youngest correspondent ever when she was hired in 2012.
