Randall Park, Jake Shane, Amita Rao, Eric Rahill, Kate Berlant & Kerri Kenney-Silver Join Relationship Comedy ‘Wishful Thinking’

EXCLUSIVE: Emerging writer-director Graham Parkes has added six to the cast of his relationship comedy, Wishful Thinkingstarring Lewis Pullman and Maya Hawke. They are Randall Park (Fresh Off the Boat), Jake Shane (Hacks), Amita Rao (Adults), Eric Rahill (The Paper), Kate Berlant (Would It Kill You To Laugh?), and Kerri Kenney-Silver (The Four Seasons).

Character details are under wraps. Financed by Highway 10, which produces alongside Buckwild and Pinky Promise, the film sees a volatile couple discover that their emotional state has supernatural consequences on the world around them. They must then decide whether to fight for their relationship or accept that their powerful connection might be doing more harm than good.

Currently in production in Portland, OR, the film’s producers include Matt Smith and Dan Gedman for Highway 10, Pullman for Buckwild, and Kara Durrett for Pinky Promise. Executive producers include Graham Patrick Martin, Cameron Fuller and Sarah Mather.

UTA reps new cast members including Park, Shane, Rao, and Berlant. Park is also repped by Artists First and Myman Greenspan Fox; Rao by Mosaic and Goodman, Genow, Schenkman; and Berlant by Rise Management and Felker Toczek Suddleson. Rahill is repped by WME and Rise Management. Kenney-Silver is repped by Gersh, Artists First, and Jackoway Austen Tyerman.