{"id":1985032,"date":"2025-08-28T17:27:38","date_gmt":"2025-08-28T17:27:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/?p=1985032"},"modified":"2025-08-28T17:27:38","modified_gmt":"2025-08-28T17:27:38","slug":"milly-alcock-sets-movie-thumb-with-akiva-goldsmans-weed-road","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/milly-alcock-sets-movie-thumb-with-akiva-goldsmans-weed-road\/","title":{"rendered":"Milly Alcock Sets Movie &#8216;Thumb&#8217; With Akiva Goldsman&#8217;s Weed Road"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto     \">\n\t<strong>EXCLUSIVE: <\/strong><em>House of the Dragon <\/em>and <em>Supergirl <\/em>actress\u00a0<a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/deadline.com\/tag\/milly-alcock\/\" id=\"auto-tag_milly-alcock_1\" data-tag=\"milly-alcock\">Milly Alcock<\/a> will star in Daina Oniunas-Pusi\u0107\u2019s\u00a0dark comedy <em><a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/deadline.com\/tag\/thumb\/\" id=\"auto-tag_thumb_1\" data-tag=\"thumb\">Thumb<\/a>. <\/em><\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto     \">\n\tThe project, which was written by Cesar Vitale, winner of The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences\u2019 Nicholl Fellowship in Screenwriting, follows a lonely young woman (Alcock) who mistakenly receives a severed thumb in the mail. She makes it her life\u2019s obsession to return it to the hand it once belonged to, putting her on a collision course that will upend her world forever.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto     \">\n\tOscar winner Akiva\u00a0Goldsman and Greg Lessans will produce for Weed Road and Richard Saperstein, Brooke Saperstein, Beau Turpin and Annie Saperstein will produce for <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/deadline.com\/tag\/bluestone-entertainment\/\" id=\"auto-tag_bluestone-entertainment_1\" data-tag=\"bluestone-entertainment\">Bluestone Entertainment<\/a>. Cameras roll this fall in New York.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto     \">\n\tGoldsman said, \u201cCesar Vitale is a unique and exciting new voice on the page, Daina Oniunas-Pusi\u0107 is an impossibly talented artist behind the camera and none of us can stop watching the extraordinary Milly Alcock. Greg Lessans and I could not feel more privileged to help make this one a reality.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto     \">\n\tRichard Saperstein,\u00a0founder and CEO of Bluestone Entertainment said, \u201cIt\u2019s a privilege to collaborate with our friends at <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/deadline.com\/tag\/weed-road-pictures\/\" id=\"auto-tag_weed-road-pictures_1\" data-tag=\"weed-road-pictures\">Weed Road Pictures<\/a> and such a stellar team on this fresh and outrageous comedy.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto     \">\n\tAlcock, broke out in the 2022 record-breaking HBO fantasy series <em>House of the Dragon<\/em> and most recently starred opposite Julianne Moore and Meghann Fahy in Netflix\u2019s hit limited series <em>Sirens<\/em>. Her next movie, <em>Supergirl: Woman of Tomorrow<\/em>\u00a0from director Craig Gillespie and DC studios, will hit theaters on June 26, 2026. On stage, the actress starred in the West End transfer of the Olivier nominated production of Arthur Miller\u2019s\u00a0<em>The Crucible.<\/em><\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto     \">\n\tPusi\u0107 is a Croatian writer and director who made her first debut feature in 2023 with\u00a0<em>Tuesday<\/em>, starring Julia Louis-Dreyfus, Arinze Kene and Lola Petticrew, which premiered at Telluride. Daina is behind short films including\u00a0<em>The Beast<\/em>, which premiered at the Telluride Film Festival, and\u00a0<em>Rhonna &amp; Donna,\u00a0<\/em>which screened at multiple festivals including Telluride and Aesthetica, where it won the inaugural Best Screenplay Award.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto     \">\n\tVitale\u00a0has twice made the Blacklist, including with his script\u00a0<em>The Great Nothing<\/em>\u00a0which also won the Academy Nicholl Fellowship. His latest produced feature film\u00a0<em>Girl Haunts Boy<\/em>\u00a0made Netflix\u2019s Top Ten in its release weekend and he is currently working on a number of active\u00a0projects with\u00a0Weed Road Pictures,\u00a0Laika Animation, Boulderlight, and\u00a0Roth\/Kirschenbaum Films.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto     \">\n\tGoldsman is represented by CAA, TFC Management, and Hansen Jacobsen Teller. Alcock is represented by CAA, Entertainment360, Curtis Brown, Goodman, Genow, Schenkman, Smelkinson &amp; Christopher, and WKPR. Vitale is represented by CAA, Untitled, and VanderKloot Law. CAA Media Finance is handling domestic sales.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto     \">\n\tBluestone Entertainment and Weed Road Pictures are also developing\u00a0<em>Basketful of Heads,\u00a0<\/em>a darkly comedic horror comic series published by DC\u2019s Hill House, with Natasha Lyonne attached to star. Ana Lily Amirpour will adapt and direct the feature.\u00a0<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><em> \u2018 The preceding article may include information circulated by third parties \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n<p><em> \u2018 Some details of this article were extracted from the following source deadline.com \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>EXCLUSIVE: House of the Dragon and Supergirl actress\u00a0Milly Alcock will star in Daina Oniunas-Pusi\u0107\u2019s\u00a0dark comedy Thumb. The project, which was written by Cesar Vitale, winner of The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences\u2019 Nicholl Fellowship in Screenwriting, follows a lonely young woman (Alcock) who mistakenly receives a severed thumb in the mail. 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