The rom-com queen returns to the director's chair for the first time since 2015.
The Big Picture It’s been a long time coming, but eight years later, Meg Ryan is finally following up on her directorial debut. This time, however, the actor and director is putting out a project from the genre that made her an international superstar: a romantic comedy. What Happens Later stars Ryan and David Duchovny as former lovers who meet by chance in an airport and end up stranded in it after both their flights get delayed.
The What Happens Later trailer also makes it clear that the movie will dive a lot deeper than rom-coms usually do. The premise is simple, but it provides room for meaningful conversations: The trailer suggests that the longer they're stuck in the airport, the deeper the couple digs into each other’s shortcomings from when they were together. This means we’ll witness a range of emotions as the 60-something duo talks about life, time, and the roads not taken.
What Happens Later is based on the stage play Shooting Star, written by acclaimed playwright Steven Dietz. The playwright himself adapted the story for the screen and co-wrote the script with Ryan and fellow playwright Kirk Lynn. What Was Meg Ryan's First Movie as a Director? Ryan’s first feature as a director was 2015’s Ithaca, a war drama starring herself along with a powerful cast that featured Tom Hanks , the late Sam Shepard , Hamish Linklater , Gabriel Basso , Jack Quaid and a younger Alex Neustaedter who starred in the coming-of-age story of a bike messenger who witnesses the beginning of World War II.
What Happens Later premieres in theaters on October 13. You can watch the trailer below and keep scrolling for the official synopsis: Two ex-lovers, Bill and Willa get snowed in at a regional airport overnight. Indefinitely delayed, Willa, a magical thinker, and Bill, a catastrophic one, find themselves just as attracted to and annoyed by one another as they did decades earlier.
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