‘Dicks: The Musical’ Joins Festival Fare ‘She Came To Me’, ‘The Royal Hotel’, ‘Strange Way Of Life’ & More In Lively Indie Weekend – Specialty Preview
deadline.comA wacky film based on a stage show by comedians Aaron Jackson and Josh Sharp, Dicks: The Musical – a riff on The Parent Trap with two adult men as the starring twins — opens in seven theaters in New York, Los Angeles and San Francisco on a crowded specialty weekend as theatrical releases of fall film festival titles accelerates.
Dicks, from A24 and developed by Chernin Entertainment, is, according to press notes, a first “adult musical comedy” for both. (It’s Chernin’s second musical after hit The Greatest Showman.) Directed by Larry Charles (Seinfeld, Borat), it stars the two creators Jackson and Sharp as self-obsessed businessmen who discover they’re long-lost identical twins and come together to plot the reunion of their eccentric divorced parents.
They’re joined by an A-list roster including Nathan Lane, Megan Mullally, Bowen Yang and Megan Thee Stallion. A SAG-AFTRA interim agreement allowed the talent to promote the film at TIFF, where it premiered — Deadline review here — winning the People’s Choice Award for its Midnight Madness section.
The original score by composers Marius de Vries (Moulin Rouge!, CODA) and Karl Saint Lucy and the original songs created by the composers, Jackson and Sharp(who co-wrote the music for the original stage play F***ing Identical Twins at the Upright Citizens Brigade, includes music from megastar Megan Thee Stallion.
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