Sacha Baron Cohen, Rosamund Pike Set To Star For Netflix In Thea Sharrock-Helmed ‘Ladies First’
EXCLUSIVE: Netflix has set Sacha Baron Cohen and Rosamund Pike to star in Ladies First, a comedy directed by Thea Sharrock. The film is an adaptation based on the Eleonore Pourriat-directed French film Je Ne Suis Pas Un Homme Facile.
Pic is scripted by Katie Silberman (Booksmart), Natalie Krinsky (The Broken Hearts Gallery) and Cinco Paul (Schmigadoon!). Baron Cohen will play an unrepentant womanizer who finds himself in a parallel world dominated by women. A fiery female counterpart (Pike) makes things even more complicated.
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Ladies First is produced by Liza Chasin of 3dot Productions, under her creative partnership with Netflix, where she has percolating the Laura Dern-starrer Lonely Plane and Sofia Carson-starrer The Life List. Also producing is Eleonore Dailly, Edouard de Lachomette and Four By Two Films.
Baron Cohen, who’ll next be seen starring with Cate Blanchett and Kevin Kline in the Alfonso Cuarón-directed Apple TV+ series Disclaimer, last worked with Netflix in The Trial of the Chicago 7. He was Oscar-nominated for his turn as Abbie Hoffman in the Aaron Sorkin-directed drama.
Baron Cohen is repped by CAA. Pike, most recently seen in Saltburn with Season 3 of Wheel of Time, Thumblite, Now You See Me 3 and her National Theater debut Inter Alia coming, is repped by CAA, United Agents and Magnolia Entertainment.
Sharrock, whose credits include The Beautiful Game, Me Before You and Wicked Little Letters, is repped by CAA.
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