Sumith Prasad
The shooting of Apple TV+’s comedy series ‘The Birdie Machine’ will begin next month in Vancouver, British Columbia. Academy Award-nominee Owen Wilson headlines the cast of the series, created and written by Jason Keller. Jonathan Dayton and Valerie Faris are on board as directors.
The show revolves around Pryce Cahill, an over-the-hill, ex-pro golfer whose career was derailed prematurely two decades ago. After he gets fired from his job at an Indiana sporting goods store and his wife walks out on him, Pryce hedges his bets entirely on a troubled 17-year-old golf phenom Sanjay.
Keller is one of the writers of James Mangold’s biographical drama ‘Ford v Ferrari.’ After making his screenwriting debut with the teleplay of the TV movie ‘Big Shot: Confessions of a Campus Bookie,’ Keller went on to co-write ‘Machine Gun Preacher,’ starring Gerard Butler, ‘Mirror Mirror,’ featuring Lily Collins and Julia Roberts, and ‘Escape Plan.’ Dayton and Faris are known for helming ‘Little Miss Sunshine,’ ‘Battle of the Sexes,’ and ‘Living with Yourself.’
Wilson featured as Father Kent in Justin Simien’s horror comedy ‘Haunted Mansion,’ also starring Rosario Dawson, Jamie Lee Curtis, Winona Ryder, Jared Leto, and Danny DeVito. He also joined the cast of Brantley Gutierrez’s ‘Lips Like Sugar,’ to star alongside Woody Harrelson, which is slated to film in San Bernardino and Riverside County, California. His recent TV projects include the second season of Disney+’s superhero series ‘Loki.’
Wilson’s notable performances include Carl in ‘Paint,’ Lightning McQueen in ‘Cars on the Road,’ Jack in ‘Secret Headquarters,’ Charlie in ‘Marry Me,’ Herbsaint Sazerac in Wes Anderson’s ‘The French Dispatch,’ Greg Wittle in ‘Bliss,’ etc. The official announcement concerning the casting of the character Sanjay is yet to be released. In the coming months, we can expect more cast additions to the show.
Vancouver has been hosting the filming of some of the high-profile TV shows to come out in recent times, including ‘Avatar: The Last Airbender’ and ‘The Last of Us.’
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