2024 Sundance Film Festival Predictions: Michael Showalter’s The Idea of You

He already has a history with Park City having premiered 2014’s They Came Together (which he wrote) and The Big Sick which panned out to be a huge crowdpleaser in 2017. After a no-show this year, Michael Showalter‘s The Idea of You might actually be enroute to Sundance. Production began in October of 2022 on the Amazon Studios book-to-screen adaptation of the Robinne Lee novel. Anne Hathaway toplines the May-December type romance.

Gist: This centers on Solène Marchand (Anne Hathaway), a 40-year-old divorced mother. Sophie’s husband Dan left her for a younger woman, and now he has canceled his Coachella trip with their 15-year-old daughter. Sophie picks up the pieces, braving the crowds and desert heat. There, she meets 24-year-old Hayes Campbell (Nicholas Galitzine), the lead singer of the hottest boy band on the planet, August Moon.

Production Co./Producers: Eric Hayes, Robinne Lee, Jordana Mollick, Jeff Morrone, Michael Showalter, Welle Entertainment’s Cathy Schulman, I’ll Have Another’s Gabrielle Union, Somewhere Pictures’ Anne Hathaway.

Prediction: Premieres.

U.S. Distributor: Amazon Studios.