Zach Braff’s Next Movie Is ‘A Good Person’ Starring Florence Pugh And Morgan Freeman
It’s been four years sinceZach Braffdirected a movie, and that was the geriatric studio comedyGoing in StylestarringAlan Arkin,Michael CaineandMorgan Freeman. It was an average comedy to crack up the older crowds, and it appears it was enough to keep one of the stars interested in working with theScrubsstar andGarden Statedirector again.
Morgan Freeman will star inA Good Person, the next directorial effort by Zach Braff. The movie will also star his current romantic interest, the Oscar-nominatedFlorence Pugh, who we’re still waiting to see in Marvel’sBlack Widowsometime this year.
Deadline has news ofA Good Personout of the European Film Market, where the movie is trying to find distribution. The story is said to follow Florence Pugh as Allison, a young woman whose life falls apart following her involvement in a fatal accident. In the years that follow, she forms an unlikely kinship with her would-be father-in-law (Morgan Freeman), and he helps her live her life again. Since Freeman is playing her would-be father-in-law, that fatal accident likely took the life of Allison’s fiancé.
Braff may not have been busy behind the camera as a feature filmmaker recently, but he did direct an episode from the first season of Apple TV+’s sports comedy seriesTed Lasso.The filmmaker was also at the helm of four episodes of the short-livedAlex, Inc.on ABC, in which he also starred. Though he made a promising directorial debut withGarden Statein 2004, his sophomore effortWish I Was Hereleft something to be desired. Here’s hoping that with Pugh as an apparent muse he can create some magic behind the camera again, especially since he also wrote the script.
As for Pugh, she’s been on a meteoric rise over the past few years. On top of her Oscar nomination for a supporting role inLittle Women, she also made waves with A24’s cult horror movieMidsommar, and she led the wrestling comedyFighting with My Family. If all goes well, we’ll see her inBlack Widowlater this year, which has alsolanded her a rolein Marvel’sHawkeyeseries.
Meanwhile, Morgan Freeman is still working regularly as he comes up on his 84th birthday. He’s got aridiculous-looking crime comedycoming up calledThe Comeback Trail, which also stars Robert De Niro, Tommy Lee Jones, and Zach Braff. Before that, he appeared inAngel Has Fallen, the third film in Gerard Butler’s action franchise that began withOlympus Has Fallen. Freeman is also coming off a performance in the action comedy sequelThe Hitman’s Wife’s Bodyguard.
