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New Girl and Ant-Man stars team up for new movie

Photo credit: Stefanie Keenan - Getty Images
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Zooey Deschanel and Walton Goggins are set to star alongside Casey Affleck and Beau Bridges in an upcoming music drama, titled Dreamin’ Wild.

Jack Dylan Grazer (Luca, Shazam!), Noah Jupe (A Quiet Place) and Chris Messina (I Care a Lot) have also been cast in the film.

In a synopsis shared by Variety, Dreamin' Wild is based on the true story of siblings Donnie and Joe Emerson, and the "tumult that followed the success of their self-recorded pop-funk album of the same name".

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Photo credit: Stefanie Keenan - Getty Images

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The duo's work remained largely unknown in the 70's until they were rediscovered by critics in the 21st century. Dreamin' Wild, originally recorded when the brothers were teenagers, was reissued in 2012.

In the movie, Donnie will be forced to confront his past, as well as the toll that his dream has taken on his loved ones.

Affleck will play Donnie in the present day, while Jupe will portray him as a teenager. Goggins is set to play Joe as an adult, and Grazer will play him in his younger days.

Deschanel has been cast as Donnie's wife Nancy, with Bridges as the brothers' father Don Emerson Sr.

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Photo credit: Matt Winkelmeyer - Getty Images

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Meanwhile, Messina will play Matt Sullivan, a record executive at Light in the Attic Records, the label which reissued Dreamin' Wild for a new audience.

Deschanel, who is best known as the lead in New Girl, had her last big-screen role in 2016’s animated hit Trolls, followed by a small cameo in the 2020 sequel Trolls World Tour.

Goggins, whose credits include Ant-Man and the Wasp and Justified, recently finished work on The Last Days of Ptolemy Grey alongside Samuel L Jackson for Apple TV+, as well as the second season of HBO's The Righteous Gemstones.

Oscar winner Affleck recently produced and co-starred opposite Katherine Waterston and Vanessa Kirby in The World to Come.

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