Sky Yang and Sean Kaufman will star alongside Daisy Edgar-Jones in Paramount‘s upcoming adaptation of Gabrielle Zevin’s best-selling novel “Tomorrow, and Tomorrow, and Tomorrow.”
Set over several decades, the story follows Sadie and her co-collaborator Sam Masur, who meet as children and then reunite as college students, as well as Sam’s roommate and friend Marx Watanabe, as they build a video game studio called Unfair Games. Yang has been cast as Sam and Kaufman will play Marx. Edgar-Jones will portray Sadie. The story looks at the passion and heartbreak of creative collaboration, and unfolds against the rising video game industry of the 1990s-2000s.
Siân Heder, an Oscar winner for “CODA,” is directing and writing the screenplay based on drafts by Mark Bomback and Zevin.
Yang’s credits include a starring role in Justin Lin’s drama “Last Days,” which earned rave reviews at Sundance, as well as the horror film “Whistle.” Yang is slated to appear in Paul Greengrass’s historical drama “The Uprising” as part of a starry cast that includes Andrew Garfield, Jamie Bell, Tom Hollander, and Cosmo Jarvis. He also just finished filming on “Unspeakable” opposite Eliza Scanlen directed by Corinna Faith and recently wrapped on “The Exiles” in Taiwan directed by Midi Z with Sam Worthington. On TV, he appeared in the ITV series “Holding.” Yang’s film career started with a leading role in Zack Snyder’s “Rebel Moon.”
Kaufman is best known for his work on the Amazon Prime Video romance series “The Summer I Turned Pretty.” He’s also lined up several splashy projects, including Ron Howard’s war drama “Alone at Dawn,” joining a cast that includes Adam Driver, Anne Hathaway and Betty Gilpin. Kaufman has also been tapped to star with Matt Damon in an untitled event picture from the Oscar-winning “Everything Everywhere All at Once” duo The Daniels at Universal, as well as “Other Mommy,” as horror thriller with Jessica Chastain that saw its first trailer go viral. Kaufman will reprise his role in “The Summer I Turned Pretty” in the upcoming film.
“Tomorrow, and Tomorrow, and Tomorrow” will be produced by Temple Hill’s Wyck Godfrey, Marty Bowen and Isaac Klausner. Zevin will serve as executive producer. The film will open Nov. 12, 2027.
Published in 2022, “Tomorrow, and Tomorrow, and Tomorrow” has sold over four million copies worldwide in 40 foreign language territories. It has been named one of the 100 best books of the 21st century by the New York Times and one of the best fiction books of the last 30 years by the Los Angeles Times.
Yang is repped by Independent Talent Group, Range Media Partners, Jackoway Austen Tyerman Wertheimer Mandelbaum Morris Bernstein Trattner Auerbach Hynick Jaime LeVine Sample & Klein, Pippa Beng. Kaufman is repped by CESD, Untitled Entertainment and Jackoway Austen.