‘What Happens Later’ Trailer: Meg Ryan Directs Her Rom-Com Return With David Duchovny as Her Old Flame
variety.comSophia Scorziello editor Rom-com darling Meg Ryan returns to her throne with David Duchovny for Bleecker Street’s upcoming love story “What Happens Later.” Based on Steven Dietz’s play “Shooting Star,” the film follows two old flames who, after bumping into each other when their flights get snowed in, spend the night in an airport reliving the past.
In addition to her lead role, Ryan served as director and co-writer. Ryan stars in the film as Willa with Duchovny leading alongside her as Bill.
The ex-lovers engage in an awkward meet-cute (for a second time in their lives) before discovering that their two flights have been moved due to a snow storm. “Indefinitely delayed, Willa, a magical thinker, and Bill, a catastrophic one, find themselves just as attracted to — and annoyed by — one another as they did decades earlier.
But as they unpack the riddle of their mutual past and compare their lives to the dreams they once shared, they begin to wonder if their reunion is mere coincidence, or something more enchanted,” reads the film’s official synopsis.
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