Coined as a “musical fantasia of a city under duress,” Rami Malek is making a return to American indie and Rebecca Hall makes it two for two with Ira Sachs stepping into a new genre with The Man I Love. Production took off this week. Ebon Moss-Bachrach also toplines, Tom Sturridge and Luther Ford round out ensemble. Variety reports that Big Creek Projects’ Scott McGehee, David Siegel and Mike Spreter are producing. So is Myriam Schroeter. Saïd Ben Saïd is back as a producer as well – he backed Sachs’ first forays outside of the United States in Frankie (2019) and Passages (2023). Executive producers include Jack Heller and Caitlin de Lisser-Ellen of Assemble Media, Loring McAlpin, Jonathan Weiner and Meredith Crowley of Merino Films, Lucas Joaquin and Kevin Chneiweiss.
Co-written by Sachs and partner Mauricio Zacharias, this is set in the vibrant era of late ’80s New York, Malek will play Jimmy George, a downtown artist living “in an extraordinary moment between great illness and death when, still, all beauty and love is possible.”
