If you’re in Ireland or the UK and you’ve read the above headline, then you can be forgiven for thinking Anna Kendrick has been signing on the dole for the last 5 years. Far from it. She’s teaming up with Jeremy Jordan (Joyful Noise) for a movie musical based on Jason Robert Brown’s “The Last 5 Years”. Richard LaGravenese will write and direct.
“The Last 5 Years” is a musical love story for a new generation. Told through emotionally powerful and comic songs from their individual perspectives, “The Last 5 Years” is a deconstruction of the love affair and marriage of Cathy Hiatt, a struggling actress, and Jamie Wellerstein, a rising novelist, The story chronicles the five-year life of a marriage, from meeting to break-up…or from break-up to meeting, depending on how you look at it.
The film begins shooting this week in New York City
