Directors Valerie Faris and Jonathan Dayton had huge success with Little Miss Sunshine, a film showcasing family in a journey to a beauty pageant. Obviously its been a few years since that project, but now they have finally gotten a new project off the ground. According to Collider, The film, He Loves Me, stars Paul Dano as “a once-great novelist who is creativity blocked due to heartache and loneliness, only to be turned around when he writes his dream girl (Zoe Kazan) who then comes to life.” The movie co-stars Annette Bening, Antonio Banderas, Steve Coogan, Elliott Gould, Chris Messina, and Deborah Ann Woll.
There’s been a name chance now and it will be called Ruby Sparks. Fox Searchlight will distribute the film and it will see limited release on July 25th.
Here’s the official synopsis:
Did you enjoy this article? If so, we’d love to hear your thoughts in the comments below. It would be great if you subscribed to our RSS feed or signed up for email updates to get more goodness. There’s lots more where this came from!Calvin (Dano) is a young novelist who achieved phenomenal success early in his career but is now struggling with his writing – as well as his romantic life. Finally, he makes a breakthrough and creates a character named Ruby who inspires him. When Calvin finds Ruby (Kazan), in the flesh, sitting on his couch about a week later, he is completely flabbergasted that his words have turned into a living, breathing person.
