Phoebe Dynevor Diaries

DEADLINE – EXCLUSIVE: In a package that’s sure to heat up the marketplace right before the holiday weekend, sources tell Deadline that Logan Lerman and Phoebe Dynevor are attached to star in the romcom The Threesome for director Chad Hartigan. Ethan Ogilby penned the script, with King Richard production company Star Thrower producing.

Described as a high-concept, character-driven comedy in the vein of Knocked Up, the film explores the aftermath of one impulsive, seemingly innocuous decision. When a young man’s perennial crush leads him into an unexpected threesome, he thinks it’s his ultimate fantasy come true. But when the fantasy ends, all three are left with sobering real-world consequences, forcing them to take responsibility for their actions — even if it means compromising the lives they’ve always envisioned.

The package went out on the marketplace this week and already has drawn interest from a handful of suitors.

Lerman is coming off the Prime Video series Hunters, which is in production on its second season. He also is set to appear in the Sony action pic Bullet Train, opposite Brad Pitt and Aaron Taylor-Johnson. He is repped by WME and Brillstein Entertainment.

Best known for her breakout role in Bridgerton, Dynevor most recently starred in the Sky Cinema pic The Colour Room and in a cameo appearance on Ten Percent. On the film side, she recently finished production on MRC Film’s Fair Play. She also is set to star in and exec produce the in-the-works Amazon limited series Exciting Times. She is repped by Gersh, Luber Roklin and United Agents.

Hartigan most recently directed Little Fish, a high-concept sci-fi love story starring Olivia Cooke and Jack O’Connell. It was selected to premiere at the 2020 Tribeca Film Festival in the U.S. Narrative Competition before the festival was canceled. He also directed Morris from America. Hartigan is repped by CAA and Mosaic.

VARIETY – “Bridgerton” star Phoebe Dynevor will executive produce and star in a new feature film at Amazon Studios.

The breakout star of the Shonda Rhimes Netflix sensation has boarded “The Outlaws Scarlett & Browne,” a futuristic thriller from director James Bobin. Screenwriter Joe Tracz is adapting Jonathan Stroud’s book of the same name.

The film is set in a fragmented future England, where gunfights and monsters collide, and where the formidable outlaw Scarlett McCain fights daily against the odds. When she discovers a wrecked coach on a lonely road, there is only one survivor — the seemingly hapless youth Albert Browne. Soon, new and implacable enemies are on their heels and a relentless pursuit continues across the broken landscape of England. Scarlett must fight to uncover the secrets of Albert’s past — and come to terms with the implications of her own.

Temple Hill Entertainment, run by Marty Bowen and Wyck Godfrey, is producing. The book was brought in by John Fischer and George Berman, who will oversee development for Temple Hill.

This marks Dynevor’s second teaming with tech giant Amazon, following the feature “Call My Agent.” She’s also an executive producer and star in “Exciting Times,” a limited series from Sundance sensation Cooper Raiff. Additional projects for Dynevor include “I Heart Murder” at Sony Pictures and “The Colour Room” from Sky Cinema.

Bobin most recently served as director and executive producer on “The Mysterious Benedict Society” and will next helm “Percy Jackson & The Olympians,” both at Disney Plus. He is best known for directing “The Muppets” with Amy Adams and Jason Segel, which spawned a sequel. His credits include “Da Ali G Show” and “Flight of the Conchords.”

Writer Tracz is currently adapting his Broadway musical “Be More Chill” with composer Joe Iconis and producers Berlanti/Schecter Films and 21Laps for 20th Century Studios. He is also creator and showrunner of Netflix’s “Dash & Lily” and is a writer on the “Percy Jackson” reboot at Disney Plus.

Stroud is the author of two internationally bestselling series: the award-winning “Bartimaeus Sequence” and the critically acclaimed “Lockwood & Co,” which is currently being adapted by Netflix.