Producers Tim and Trevor White Found Their ‘Eternity’ Screenwriter on a Tour of the West Wing

It sounds kind of like a Mad Libs or the start of a very specific joke. Tim and Trevor White, the producers behind films like King Richard, were getting a tour of the West Wing of the White House as part of their prep for the 2016 biopic Lbj. Along with Rob Reiner and Woody Harrelson — the film’s respective director and star — their tour guide was an Obama-era aide who surprised the producers by asking whether he could send them a screenplay he had written. Nearly a decade later, the Whites and that presidential speechwriter-cum-screenwriter, Patrick Cunnane, are heading to TIFF with the A24 feature Eternity.

The movie stars Elizabeth Olsen as a recently deceased woman who has to choose whom to spend the afterlife with, her first husband (Callum Turner) or second (Miles Teller). The Whites’ Star Thrower Entertainment banner, with credits including the Sundance standout Fair Play,…