Chris Pine & Jenny Slate To Star In ‘Carousel’ From Rachel Lambert

EXCLUSIVE: Chris Pine (Don’t Worry Darling) and Jenny Slate (Dying for Sex) have inked deals to lead Carouselwriter-director Rachel Lambert’s follow-up to her dark 2023 Sundance comedy Sometimes I Think About Dying.

Details on the indie’s plot are being kept under wraps, other than it being a love story. The cast also includes Abby Ryder Fortson (The Pitt), Sam Waterston (Grace and Frankie), Katey Sagal (The Conners), Helen Yorke (The Other Two), Jessica Harper (Nightbitch), and Jeffrey DeMunn (Billions). Production wrapped in Cleveland, Ohio last month.

Alex Saks is producing alongside Bobby Daly Jr. and David Lipper of Latigo Films, as well as Pine and Ian Gotler for Barry Linen Motion Pictures. Executive producers include Nat McCormick and Brandon Burrows of Stoic, Melissa West, Mariela Villa and Ryan Winterstern. Latigo is financing, with CAA and WME handling sales alongside foreign sales agent Stoic.

Recently making his directorial debut with the comedy Poolmanin which he also stars, Pine’s other most recent credits include Olivia Wilde’s Don’t Worry Darling, Dungeons & Dragons: Honor Among Thieves and Disney’s Wish. Up next, he stars alongside Cate Blanchett and Dave Bautista in Alpha Ganga sci-fi comedy from sibling filmmakers David and Nathan Zellner (Sasquatch Sunset). He is repped by CAA, Brillstein Entertainment Partners and Gendler, Kelly & Cunningham.

Slate just earned her first Emmy nomination for her supporting turn opposite Michelle Williams in FX’s Dying for Sex. Her upcoming projects include At the Seaa Kornél Mundruczó drama co-starring Amy Adams, Brett Goldstein and Rainn Wilson, and Disney’s Zootopia 2. She is repped by CAA, Linden Entertainment, Mosaic, and Yorn, Levine, Barnes.

Lambert is coming off the visually striking Sometimes I Think About Dyinga dark comedy starring Daisy Ridley that Oscilloscope released following its Sundance premiere. She made her narrative feature debut with In the Radiant Citya TIFF drama starring Michael Abbott Jr. and Marin Ireland released by The Orchard. She is repped by CAA and Entertainment 360.

Fortson is repped by WME, TalentWorks and Yorn, Levine, Barnes; Waterston by Constellation Media Group; Sagal by CAA and B and B Management; Yorke by UTA, Regarding Entertainment and Jackoway Austen Tyerman; Harper by CAA and Wright Entertainment; and DeMunn by Greene Talent and Law Offices of Mark S. Temple.