EXCLUSIVE:Halle Baileyand Rege-Jean Page will star inItaliannafor Universal Pictures, with Kat Coiro set to direct.
Ryan Engle wrote the screenplay for the film based on an original idea by Ryan Engle and Kristin Engle.
Plot details are being kept under wraps.
From left: Halle Bailey, Regé-Jean Page, Kat Coiro and Ryan EngleJulian Dakdouk/Getty/Brian Bowen Smith/Getty
Will Packer and Johanna Byer will produce the film through Will Packer Productions first look deal with Universal Pictures.
Senior EVP Erik Baiers and Director of Development Jacqueline Garell will oversee the project for the studio.
Alvie Hurtado will oversee for Will Packer Productions.
She followed that up by joining Warner Bros reimagining ofThe Color Purple.
Coiro recently directed the pilot and half of the first season of CBSMatlock, starring Kathy Bates.
Packers films have earned more than $1 billion, with nine opening at No.
1 at the box office and 2017sGirls Tripbreaking box office records for an R-rated comedy.
Bailey is represented by CAA.
Page is represented by UTA, Brillstein Entertainment Partners, Shelter PR and Johnson Shapiro Slewett & Kole.
Coiro is represented by CAA, 3 Arts Entertainment and Sloane Offer Weber & Dern.
Engle is represented by CAA, Michael Lasker at Mosaic and Jeff Frankel at McKuin Frankel Whitehead LLP.
Packer is represented by CAA and Johnson Shapiro Slewett & Kole.
