Andrea Berloff’s directorial debut just added even more star power. With Melissa McCarthy and Tiffany Haddish already on board, “The Kitchen” now counts Elisabeth Moss among its cast. The Hollywood Reporter broke the news. The mob drama is slated to hit theaters September 20, 2019.
An adaptation of the DC/Vertigo comic book series of the same name, “The Kitchen” is set in 1970s Hell’s Kitchen, New York. The New Line pic centers on the wives of Irish mobsters. The women step in to fill their husband’s shoes after an FBI sweep lands the men in prison.
“McCarthy will play an adoring mother who leads the women’s charge to take over the business, while Haddish will portray a woman willing to kill anyone in the way of her plan,” the source reveals. “Moss will play a timid wife of an abusive husband who falls in love with the violence of her new life.”
Moss just won an Emmy for her role as Offred in “The Handmaid’s Tale,” Hulu’s adaptation of Margaret Atwood’s best-selling dsytopian novel. Season 2 premieres April 25. She can next be seen on the big screen in an adaptation of Anton Chevov’s “The Seagull,” set to bow May 11. Annette Bening and Saoirse Ronan co-star.
A trailer just dropped for one of McCarthy’s upcoming projects, “Can You Ever Forgive Me?” a drama about a down-on-her luck writer who begins embellishing and forging letters written by famous literary figures. The Marielle Heller-directed pic opens October 19.
“Girls Trip” breakout Haddish co-stars in Tracy Morgan’s upcoming TBS series “The Last O.G.,” a comedy about a convict who returns home to find his Brooklyn neighborhood very different than he left it. Co-created by “Get Out” writer-director Jordan Peele, the show premieres April 3.
Best known for writing “Straight Outta Compton,” Berloff’s other credits include “Blood Father” and “World Trade Center.”