We’ve just heard that Seth Rogen has officially joined the cast of Aziz Ansari’s directorial debut, Being Mortal. The film stars Bill Murray (The French Dispatch, Lost in Translation) along with Ansari who also wrote the script and is producing with Youree Henley.
The film is based on Atul Gawande’s non-fiction book ‘Being Mortal: Medicine and What Matters in the End’. Principal photography will start this April, with Searchlight Pictures set to release the film theatrically in 2023.
The synopsis for the source material, the novel first published in 2015, is as follows [from Amazon]:
For most of human history, death was a common, ever-present possibility. It didn’t matter whether you were five or fifty – every day was a roll of the dice. But now, as medical advances push the boundaries of survival further each year, we have become increasingly detached from the reality of being mortal. So here is a book about the modern experience of mortality – about what it’s like to get old and die, how medicine has changed this and how it hasn’t, where our ideas about death have gone wrong.
More on this as it comes our way.
