“Marvelous Mrs. Maisel” breakout Rachel Brosnahan will be hitting the big screen later this year. The recent Golden Globe winner toplines “Change in the Air,” Dianne Dreyer’s directorial debut. Deadline reports that Screen Media just snagged worldwide rights to the drama, a story about “a beguiling young woman (Brosnahan) who moves in next door, and awakens a quiet neighborhood, bringing people face to face with their secrets and, ultimately, themselves.”
Audra Gorman penned the script. The film’s supporting cast includes Mary Beth Hurt, Aidan Quinn, and Macy Gray.
“House of Cards” and “The Black List” are among Brosnahan’s previous credits. She currently stars as a housewife turned stand-up, in “The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel,” a period comedy created by Amy Sherman-Palladino (“Gilmore Girls”). The show is returning for a second season but a premiere date hasn’t been announced yet.
“One of the things you’ll see with Midge is the struggle between, ‘I have this new voice and it feels good,’ and also wanting things to go back to exactly how they were before,” Brosnahan has said of her “Mrs. Maisel” character. “She’s not exactly a ra-ra feminist when we meet her. The first time she ever does stand-up, it’s not stand-up at all. It’s a prolonged mental breakdown. And that’s true for the second time, and the third time, and the fourth time … This idea that she could become a comedian is one that you’ll watch her begin to wrap her head around and feel both intimidated by and exhilarated by at various points throughout the season.”
While “Change in the Air” marks Dreyer’s first time in the director’s chair, she has decades of experience in the business. She served as script supervisor for titles including “Doubt,” “You’ve Got Mail,” and “The English Patient.”