Neil Patrick Harris, Winslow Fegley to star in ‘8-Bit Christmas’ film for HBO Max
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LOS ANGELES: “How I Met Your Mother” alum Neil Patrick Harris is ready to headline the HBO Max movie “8-Bit Christmas”, based mostly on Kevin Jakubowski’s debut novel of the identical identify.
The New Line comedy additionally options “Timmy Failure: Mistakes Were Made” star Winslow Fegley, “Grace and Fankie” actor June Diane Raphael, and “Dallas Buyers Club” actor Steve Zahn.
According to The Hollywood Reporter, Michael Dowse, greatest identified for “Stuber” and “What If?”, is hooked up to direct the movie.
Set in suburban Chicago within the Eighties, “8-bit Christmas” is a heartfelt and humorous have a look at childhood misadventures.
It revolves round a 10-year outdated boy named Jake Doyle and his epic quest to search out one of the best online game system.
Harris, who serves because the narrator on the film, is forged because the grownup Jake.
Fegley is portraying the younger Jake, whereas Raphael and Zahn are will play the position of his mother and father.
Jakubowski has tailored the e-book for display screen and also will govt produce the movie with Whitney Brown.
Tim White, Trevor White and Allan Mandelbaum are producing through their Star Thrower Entertainment banner.
Nick Nantell and Jonathan Sadowski are credited as producers as effectively.
Production on the movie is underway in Toronto.
