Karen Gillan to Topline Lisa Steen’s Multigenerational Comedy “Late Bloomers”

Karen Gillan can at present be seen on the massive display, the place she’s reprising her position as Nebula in “Thor: Love & Thunder.” She’ll take a break from the Marvel universe with “Late Bloomers,” a multigenerational coming-of-age comedy that marks Lisa Steen’s characteristic debut. Deadline broke the information that Gillan, whose different latest credit embrace “The Bubble” and “Twin,” toplines the pic, which has wrapped manufacturing in Brooklyn.

From We’re Doin’ Nice and Park Footage, “Late Bloomers” tells the story of Louise (Gillan), “an aimless millennial who drunkenly breaks her hip, touchdown her in bodily remedy. There, she makes an aged Polish BFF (Margaret Sophie Stein) who speaks no English. And it’s this unlikely friendship that provides her the braveness to face what she’s been working from all alongside: Her mom’s early-onset Alzheimer’s.” Talia Balsam performs Louise’s mom.

The pic is penned by Anna Greenfield and “loosely primarily based on her expertise residing in Brooklyn in her 20s.”

Gillan made her characteristic directorial debut with “The Occasion’s Simply Starting,” a darkish comedy that she additionally wrote and starred in. Her different huge display credit embrace “Jumanji” and “The Massive Quick.”