Geena Davis Joins Sci-Fi Drama Marjorie Prime
Geena Davis will be joining the likes of Jon Hamm and Lois Smith in the adaptation of the Pulitzer Prize-nominated Sci-Fi stage work Marjorie Prime.
Hamlet and Cymbeline director Michael Almereyda is in the director’s chair for this one, overseeing the adaptation of Jordan Harrison’s play that featured Smith in the lead role.
Smith is back here to play Marjorie, an 85-year-old violinist with concerns that her memory is failing her. She invests in a service that allows people to see holographic recreations of deceased loved ones as we’d want them to be remembered, which means she interacts with a younger version of her late husband, Walter (Hamm), who is not exactly how she recalls him. She also spends time with her (living) daughter Tess (Davis) and son-in-law Jon.
Almereyda will start the cameras rolling in the Hamptons next month.