Sofia Coppola is set to team up with Bill Murray for a third time. The frequent collaborators are joining forces for “On the Rocks,” Apple and A24’s first film partnership, and “Angie Tribeca’s” Rashida Jones will join them. Deadline confirmed the news.
Set in New York, the film tells the story of a young mother (Jones) who reunites with her “larger than life playboy father” (Murray). The two embark on an adventure through the city.
Coppola co-wrote “On the Rocks” and is among the project’s producers.
The writer-director most recently worked with Murray on 2015 Netflix musical “A Very Murray Christmas.” Their first project together, 2003’s “Lost in Translation,” won her an Oscar for Best Screenplay, and she became the third woman ever nominated for Best Director for the Tokyo-set tale of a disillusioned movie star and young newlywed (Scarlett Johansson). Kathryn Bigelow (“The Hurt Locker”) and Greta Gerwig (“Lady Bird”) have since been nominated for Best Director, and the former won.
As the source notes, Coppola also made history at Cannes 2017, where she became the second woman to ever win the fest’s award for best director. She took home the prize for her Nicole Kidman-led remake of “The Beguiled.” “The Bling Ring,” “Somewhere,” and “The Virgin Suicides” are among her other features.
“I just feel like I have a feminine point of view and I’m happy to put that out there,” Coppola has said. “We certainly have enough masculine ones. I never felt like I had to fit into the majority view. Maybe growing up with so many strong men around me meant I felt, I don’t know, closely connected to being feminine. I mean in my first movie, [‘The Virgin Suicides,’] I felt like making something for teenage girls. I looked at the movies they made for teenage girls and thought: why can’t they have beautiful photography? Why shouldn’t we treat that audience with respect? That was something I missed when I was that age: I wished the movies weren’t so condescending,” she explained. “So I guess I’ve always just made the films that I’d have wanted to see.”
