It appears that rapper, actor and activist, Common, will be playing the role of father to A Wrinkle In Time‘s Storm Reid in a new film called A Happening of Monumental Proportions. Directed by Judy Greer, the film will center around an insane day at Storm Reid’s school when career day goes haywire.
The film’s official synopsis explains, “The discovery of a dead body at an unassuming elementary school derails what was supposed to be an uneventful Career Day. As a pair of clunky administrators attempts to hide the corpse, school-parent and recent widower, Daniel Crawford (Common), heads to work only to find himself at the center of an office conspiracy: Someone’s sabotaged the office coffee machine, and the under-caffeinated management is thirsty for blood. A few meetings (and several lies) later, Daniel’s asshole-of-a-boss turns him into a scapegoat and terminates his employment. Daniel finds himself heading to his daughter’s career day to speak about a job he no longer has. What follows is mayhem. Punches are thrown; suicides are pondered, and scandalous affairs are brought to light. By the end of the day, Daniel–along with a motley crew of characters–finds catharsis and begins to confront the grief that’s crippled him since the loss of his wife.”
In addition to Common and Storm Reid, the film’s cast will also include Jennifer Garner, Allison Janney, Rob Riggle, Bradley Whitford, Anders Holm, John Cho, Marcus Eckert, Katie Holmes, Nat Faxon, and Keanu Reeves. First seen at the Bentonville Film Festival in 2017, the film will be released nationwide on August 24th.
