‘Drive My Automobile’ Star Hidetoshi Nishijima Joins Rashida Jones In ‘Sunny’ – Deadline

EXCLUSIVE: Hidetoshi Nishijima (Drive My Automobile) is about to star reverse Rashida Jones in Sunny, Apple TV+’s a half-hour darkish comedy collection from  A24.

Written by Katie Robbins based mostly on the e book “Darkish Handbook” by Japan-based Irish author Colin O’Sullivan and to be directed Lucy Tcherniak, Sunny stars Jones as Suzie, an American lady dwelling in Kyoto, Japan, whose life is upended when her husband (Nishijima) and son disappear in a mysterious aircraft crash. As “comfort” she’s given Sunny, one in all a brand new class of home robots made by her husband’s electronics firm. Although at first Suzie resents Sunny’s makes an attempt to fill the void in her life, regularly they develop an surprising friendship, as collectively they uncover the darkish fact of what actually occurred to Suzie’s household, turning into dangerously enmeshed in a world Suzie by no means knew existed.

Nishijima will star as Masa Sakamoto, Suzie’s husband, and an excellent roboticist.

Robbins govt produces with Jones and Tcherniak, together with Ravi Nandan and Jess Lubben for A24. The collection will movie in Japan.

Nishijima just lately headlined the acclaimed Japanese characteristic Drive My Automobile, directed by Ryusuke Hamaguchi and written by Hamaguchi and Takamasa Oe, which was nominated for 4 Oscars, profitable for Greatest Worldwide Characteristic Movie. Nishijima earned a number of Greatest Actor awards for his efficiency, together with one from the Nationwide Society of Movie Critics. He’s repped by Quarter Tone.