Screen Media Acquires Catherine Tate Comedy ‘The Nan Movie’ Co-Written By ‘Ted Lasso’s Brett Goldstein
deadline.comEXCLUSIVE: Screen Media has acquired North American rights to the road-trip comedy The Nan Movie, written by Catherine Tate (The Office) and Brett Goldstein (Ted Lasso), with plans for a day-and-date theatrical and on-demand release this July.The film will serve as the origin story of Joannie Taylor aka Nan—the foul-mouthed grandmother character first introduced by Tate on her multi-award-winning BBC series, The Catherine Tate Show.
It follows Nan as she goes on a wild road trip from London to Ireland with her long-suffering grandson Jamie (Mathew Horne) to make amends with her estranged and dying sister Nell (Katherine Parkinson).
Through a series of flashbacks, we see the young sisters fall in love with the same handsome GI during World War 2 and how the consequences of this love triangle shaped Nan into the cantankerous old b*****d she is today.
Militant vegan arsonists, Australian rugby teams, all-night raves and crazed cops on motorbikes all make for a proper day out.Tate plays young and old versions of Nan in the film produced by Damian Jones, which also stars Parker Sawyers, Tom Vaughan-Lawlor, Jack Doolan and Niky Wardley.
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