Stranger Things star Finn Wolfhard and “When You’re Finished Saving the World” Billy Brick is set to write and direct the horror comedy Hell of a Summer.
Wolfhard, Brick and Fred Hechinger (The White Lotus, “Pam and Tommy”) will star in the film, in which the plot details are tightly preserved.
The film will be produced by Hechinger and Aggregate Films from Jason Bateman and Michael Costigan, and Parts and Labor’s Jay Van Hoy, with principal photography beginning this month in Ontario, Canada. 30West fully and executive finances the film’s production and co-represents global rights with CAA Media Finance.
Wolfhard said, “I am very excited to be co-directing my first feature film. I have the opportunity to work with an incredible cast and crew, and working with a company like 30West and Aggregate is a real dream.”
Wolfhard is best known for his starring roles as Mike Wheeler in Netflix’s Stranger Things, and also for the role of Richie Tozer in New Line Cinema’s “It” and “It: Chapter Two.” He recently starred in Jason Reitman’s “Ghostbusters: Afterlife” in Columbia Pictures. Wolfhard will be released later this year, and co-stars with Julianne Moore in Jesse Eisenberg’s A24 comedy-drama When You’re Done Save the World and produced by Emma Stone.
In 2020, Wolfhard made his directorial debut with his first short film “Night Shifts”. The short film was accepted into the Fantasia Film Festival, where it won the Silver Audience Award for Best Canadian Short Film.
Brick is an actor and producer who appeared alongside Wolfhard in “Ghostbusters: Afterlife” and currently in “When You Finish Saving the World”.
Hechinger can then be seen in Scott Cooper’s “The Pale Blue Eye” starring Christian Bale for Netflix, “Butcher’s Crossing” with Nicolas Cage, and JC Chandor’s “Kraven the Hunter” alongside Aaron Taylor-Johnson, Russell Crowe, and Ariana Debuse. His film roster includes Joe Wright’s “The Woman in the Window” for Netflix, Paul Greengrass’s “News of the World” for Universal Pictures and Bo Burnham’s “Eighth Degree” for A24.
Wolfhard is represented by CAA, Velocity Entertainment Partners (VEP), Jackoway Austen Tyerman Wertheimer Mandelbaum Morris Bernstein Trattner & Klein and Jill Fritzo PR. Hechinger is represented by A3 Artists Agency, Brillstein Entertainment Partners, and attorney Ryan LeVine. Bryk has been represented by innovative artists, Oscars Abrams Zimel & Associates (OAZ), Yorn, Levine, Barnes, Krintzman, Rubenstein, Kohner, Endlich & Gellman and Entertainment Law.
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