EXCLUSIVE: Duplass Brothers Production recently wrapped production on the Katie Aselton-directed feature Magic Hour, starring Daveed Diggs (Blindspotting, Hamilton). Aselton (Old Dads, Legion) stars alongside Diggs in the project which she co-wrote with Mark Duplass.
Details regarding the project’s plot and character descriptions are under wraps. Magic Hour is executive produced by Duplass, Mel Eslyn and Jay Duplass. Emily Neumann produced.
Aselton is a multi-hyphenate with directing credits including The Freebie (2010), Black Rock (2012) and most recently, Mack & Rita (2022) and acting credits that span both TV and film. On TV, she starred in FX’s Legion and Apple TV+’s The Morning Show; and on the big screen, in Old Dads (2023), The Unholy (2021), Bombshell (2019) and the John Lithgow and Blythe Danner feature The Tomorrow Man. She is repped by CAA and Untitled Entertainment.
Up next for Diggs, he will star as Josh in the indie film A Tree Fell in the Woods from writer and director Nora Kirkpatrick shot in Utah in 2023; and Andrew Stanton’s In The Blink of an Eye also starring Kate McKinnon and Rashida Jones. On the TV front, he continues to play the lead role of Andre Layton in the post-apocalyptic dystopian thriller Snowpiercer which AMC recently picked up following TNT’s cancelation.
He is best known for his roles in the hit musical Hamilton, which earned him a Tony Award in 2016 and for writing, producing and starring in the film Blindspotting alongside Rafael Casal. The duo co-created and starred in the Starz spinoff sequel series of the same name.
The Duplass Brothers’ productions include IFC’s 2023 title Biosphere, Eslyn’s independently produced and financed TV series, Penelope, as well as the Netflix documentary series The Octopus Murders.
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