A PROBLEM OF PROVIDENCE: Kevin Bacon Tapped to Direct AGC’s New Comedy Feature

Kevin Bacon Tapped to Direct AGC’s A Problem of Providence

Kevin Bacon has been tapped by AGC Studios to direct A Problem Of Providence — a dark comedy scripted by Mike Vukadinovich.

The film will be a darkly comedic examination of violence and greed that centers around an eclectic gathering of residents in a small Alaskan town as they attempt to cover up a murder. Bacon has most recently directed episodes of The Closer and City On A Hill, and his last film feature as director was Loverboy.

Vukadinovich has got a lot on his plate right now. Among other projects, he’s adapting the Ray Bradbury fantasy novel From The Dust Returned for Netflix and writing Cupid for Mythos Studios — with Justin Bieber attached to play the titular cherub — and Beetlejuice 2 for Warner Brothers with an original script for James Wan who will direct and produce. He is also writing the script for The Wanderling for 20th Century Studios and director Stephen Daldry and The Phantom Tollbooth for TriStar. Vukadinovich most recently worked as a supervising producer of Kidding, a series from director Michel Gondry, starring Jim Carrey.

AGC Studios has been highly prolific despite the difficulties presented by the pandemic. On television, AGC is partnering with Studio Canal on the second season of Epix’s War of the Worlds featuring Gabriel Byrne and Daisy Edgar Jones. The company also recently began production on the heist comedy Lockdown starring Anne Hathaway, Chewitel Eijofor, and Ben Stiller and directed by Doug Liman and the Andrea Riseboroough-starrer Geeche. AGC wrapped production this summer on an as of yet untitled Neill Blomkamp scifi thriller and will start production on Kristen Bell‘s comedy Queenpins with STX Entertainment and Red Hour in three weeks. Moonfall — The Roland Emmerich-directed $150 million budget feature starring Halle Berry and Patrick Wilson — starts production in two weeks; and AGC Studios is now in pre-production on a TV adaptation of Gabriel Garcia Marquez’s News of A Kidnapping in collaboration with Amazon Studios with production starting later this year. AGC’s other upcoming projects include The Blacksmith, the Pierre Morel-directed espionage thriller starring Nick Jonas and Lawrence Fishburne as well as the Sylvester Stallone action flick Little America to be directed by Rowan Athale.

Bacon is represented by MGMT and attorney Fred Gaines; Vukadinovich is repped by Verve, Industry Entertainment and attorney Rob Goldman. AGC Studios is producing and financing the film.

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