Since his breakthrough film Like Crazy in 2011, Drake Doremus has found it easy to gather great actors. It has never translated to big box office (Like Crazy‘s $3.7M is the peak), but actors just enjoy working with him. It’s been four years since Doremus’ last film, and now he’s with another terrific cast for Next Life.
Edgar Ramirez, Emilia Clarke, and Jack Farthing are aboard to star in Next Life, which Doremus will write, direct, and produce. The film “tells the love story of Ivy (Emilia Clarke), who finds herself confronted with parallel universes in which her life unspools in very different ways set against the modern London jazz scene.”
Doremus tells stories of love met by unconventional circumstances, whether it’s a long-distance relationship, a love triangle, finding love in the dating app scene, or love in an emotionless society. He last directed Endings, Beginnings in 2020.
Clarke was last seen in the indie sci-fi comedy The Pod Generation. Ramirez is earning high marks for his role in the critically acclaimed Emilia Perez. Farthing is known for his roles in the BBC series Poldark, and in the films Spencer and The Lost Daughter.
Filming is underway on Next Life so expect to see it in 2025.
