‘This Is Us’ Star Chrissy Metz Set To Topline ‘The Impossible’
February 1, 2018
‘This Is Us’ Star Chrissy Metz Set To Topline ‘The Impossible’
EXCLUSIVE: Chrissy Metz has signed on to star in The Impossible from Fox 2000 and Miracles From Heaven producer DeVon Franklin. Roxann Dawson is attached to direct the film, based on a Joyce Smith’s novel, The Impossible: The Miraculous Story of a Mother’s Faith and Her Child’s Resurrection, on her remarkable true story.
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Metz will star as Joyce, whose 14 year old son fell through a frozen lake in Missouri one winter and was proclaimed lifeless. Through prayer and faith, Joyce sat by her son’s bedside until his heart started beating again.
Seven Pounds scribe Grant Nieporte adapted the screenplay. Marisa Paiva and Elizabeth Gabler will oversee production for Fox as filming is slated to being filming will begin in March in Winnipeg.
Metz, who is fresh off of a SAG win for ensemble cast in a drama, will make her stage debut this spring in a Geffen Playhouse revival of Neil LaBute’s disturbing 2004 drama Fat Pig.
She’s repped by CAA and Luber Roklin Entertainment.