Official: Lea Michele and Kate Upton to Star in William H. Macy's Film THE LAYOVER

Lea Michele and Kate Upton will star in director William H. Macy's road trip sex comedy entitled THE LAYOVER, it was announced today by producers Keith Kjarval of Unified Pictures and Aaron L. Gilbert of Bron Studios.

THE LAYOVER is written by David Hornsby and Lance Krall. The two have collaborated in the past on the popular TV series It's Always Sunny in Philadelphia, for which Hornsby was the writer, executive producer, and co-star.
Michele and Upton will play a pair of lifelong best friends who decide to avoid their problems by taking a vacation only to find that their plane has been rerouted due to a hurricane warning. To make matters worse, the two friends find themselves in a hilarious battle for the same guy during an extended layover in St. Louis.

"We're delighted to be working again with Bill Macy on his new feature, which will showcase his comedic talents," said producers Kjarval and Gilbert.

"The minute I met Lea and Kate, the film began to focus for me. They are singular, ambitious funny women in full. This is going to be fun," said director Macy.

Executive producers are Patricia Cox, who did the same on Macy's Rudderless and Jason Cloth of Creative Wealth Media Finance.

Macy, who stars in the popular TV series Shameless, recently directed the film Rudderless, which closed Sundance and was acquired by Paramount Studios. He will also have a role in LAYOVER.

Lea Michele is well known to TV viewers as Rachel on the long running series Glee and has just started shooting Ryan Murphy's Scream Queens. Supermodel Kate Upton recently appeared in Fox's box-office smash comedy The Other Woman alongside Cameron Diaz and Leslie Mann.

Michele is repped by WME and Untitled Entertainment. Upton is repped by WME and LBI Entertainment. Macy is repped by WME and Barry Greenfield at Altman, Greenfield & Selvaggi LLP. WME Global will represent worldwide distribution rights.

ABOUT UNIFIED PICTURES - Unified Pictures operates as an independent film production and distribution company dedicated to the development, financing, production and distribution of top-tier filmed entertainment. Established ten years ago by founders Keith Kjarval and Kurt Rauer, Unified has produced twenty feature films in that time. With a focus on excellent casts and compelling stories, a variety of Unified's films have been selected for the major international film festivals, including closing out the 2014 Sundance Film Festival with William H. Macy's directorial debut, "Rudderless." The year 2015 begins with Unified going into production on two exciting projects: their epic animated film, "The Aardvark & the Ark," and the comedy romp, "The Layover."

ABOUT BRON STUDIOS: Bron Studios, co-founded by Aaron L. Gilbert and Brenda Gilbert in 2010, is a British Columbia-based producer of original live-action and animated motion pictures and series television. The company has produced over a dozen films since its founding; working with new voices and established talents both in front of and behind the camera including; Will Ferrell, Kristen Wiig, William H. Macy, Ricky Gervais, Tom Hiddleston, Ellen Page, Tim Robbins, Olivia Wilde, Billy Crudup, Zooey Deschanel, Anton Yelchin, Helen Hunt, Johnny Galecki, Anjelica Huston, Luke Wilson, Rebecca Hall, Jason Sudeikis, Elizabeth Olsen, James Marsden, Rupert Friend, Linda Cardellini, and many others.

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