Deadline is reporting that Keanu Reeves and Isla Fisher are in talks to star in The Starling, a dramedy from director Dome Karukoski (Tom of Finland), which is based on Matt Harris’ Black List script and explores how love can carry you through grief.
The official logline for The Starling reads: “A married couple lose a child and the wife goes into a recovery place to help her with overwhelming grief, leaving the husband at home alone. To help aid in her recovery, the husband decides to build a beautiful garden for his wife in their backyard, but as he does he is tormented by an aggressive, black starling. At his wits end with the relentless nature of the bird, he goes to see a veterinarian to find out if there is a humane way to get rid of it. The vet, the husband finds out, used to be a psychiatrist but gave it up to help animals instead. However, the quirky vet begins counseling the husband in a turn that neither of them really expected.”
Keanu Reeves can currently be seen in cinemas in the action sequel John Wick: Chapter 2, and also has Replicas, Rally Car and Siberia on his upcoming slate (not to mention Bill & Ted 3, if it ever gets off the ground). Fisher meanwhile was recently seen in Nocturnal Animals and Keeping Up with the Joneses.
Originally published March 6, 2017. Updated April 16, 2018.
