Linda Hamilton & Abbie Cornish Board Anna Nicole Smith Pic ‘Trust Me, I’m A Doctor’; UTA, Fortitude To Launch Sales At Cannes
02.05.2024 - 00:47
/ deadline.com
EXCLUSIVE: Linda Hamilton (The Terminator) and Abbie Cornish (Three Billboards) have come aboard to star opposite Kal Penn in Trust Me, I’m a Doctor, a new film from writer-director Thane Economou (The Wedding Party) that will launch sales at the Cannes Market.
UTA Independent Film Group is handling domestic rights, and Fortitude International overseeing international.
Pic is based on the memoir of Dr. Sandeep Kapoor (Penn), whose life is turned upside down when he is implicated in the death of his former patient — model, actress, and reality TV star, Anna Nicole Smith. The film takes place at the height of early 2000s tabloid culture and explores the intersection of fame, privacy, self-discovery and politics through the perspective of a man who wound up forced into the spotlight through the court of public opinion.
Cornish will play the late Anna Nicole Smith, with Hamilton as Ellyn Garafalo, the veteran attorney who served as Dr. Kapoor’s lifeline and legal counsel throughout the drug conspiracy trial. Currently in production, the film’s cast also includes David Julian Hirsh (Jupiter’s Legacy), Al Sapienza (The Sopranos), Eric Woolfe (Fatman), Charlotte Ubben (The Novice), and Dhirendra (A Nice Indian Boy).
Producers on Trust Me, I’m a Doctor include Ryan Hawkins (STADIUM), Al Engemann (Picture Movers Anonymous), Rebecca Case, and Geenah Krisht (Good Good Films), in association with RBF Productions. Production services are being handled by Spy Films out of Ontario. Penn is exec producing alongside Dan Spilo and David Gale.
“We all know the tragic story of the iconic Anna Nicole Smith, but very few of us – myself included – knew much about her young doctor: flamboyant, old school, blurring the lines between patient