Wishful Thinking: Casting Complete on Kristoffer Borgli’s “Dream Scenario”

Striking while the iron is hot helmer Kristoffer Borgli has found his co-lead and supporting players for his English language feature debut which appears to be filming this year. Variety reports that Julianne Nicholson will star alongside Nicolas Cage and Michael Cera, Tim Meadows, Kate Berlant, Dylan Baker and Dylan Gelula will fill in the rest of the cast on what was being described simply as an “American comedy” back on the Croisette. The A24 folks are backing Dream Scenario — which was probably ready to go well before Sick of Myself was showcased in the Un Certain Regard section (we were at the premiere – see below). Square Peg’s Ari Aster and Lars Knudsen are producing. So are Jacob Jaffke and Tyler Campellone.
Eric Lavallée is the founder, CEO, editor-in-chief, film journalist and critic at IONCINEMA.com (founded in 2000). Eric is a regular at Sundance, Cannes and TIFF. He has a BFA in Film Studies at the Mel Hoppenheim School of Cinema. In 2013 he served as a Narrative Competition Jury Member at the SXSW Film Festival. He was an associate producer on Mark Jackson's This Teacher (2018 LA Film Festival, 2018 BFI London). In 2022 he served as a New Flesh Comp for Best First Feature at the 2022 Fantasia Intl. Film Festival. Current top films for 2022 include Tár (Todd Field), All That Breathes (Shaunak Sen), Aftersun (Charlotte Wells).
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