Aziz Ansar’s ‘Being Mortal’ Stops Production After Complaint

Aziz Ansar’s ‘Being Mortal’ Stops Production After Complaint

Searchlight Pictures has stopped making Aziz Ansar’s art direction debut be mortal, the hollywood reporter Confirmed.

THR He learned that a Disney-backed studio made the decision to suspend filming following a complaint last week and is looking into the matter. The announcement was made by a source close to the production. THR The complaint is unrelated to Ansar and comedian and producer Youree Henley is working with Searchlight to figure out next steps. The nature of the complaint is still unclear.

Deadline The first to publicize the suspension.

With Bill Murray, Seth Rogen and Keke Palmer, be mortal Based on the non-fiction book Atul Gawande Deadly Era: Medicine and What Matters in the End. In addition to directing, Ansari wrote the script and will have a role in the film.

Details about the film are sparse, but Gawande’s book explores the concepts of death and aging, and how the medical profession tends to misunderstand them. The New York Times The Review of Books described it as “a moving and clear look at aging and death in our society, and the harm we do when we make it a medical problem, not a human problem.” Searchlight previously described the project as a crossroads of “cutting humor and pathos”.

Source: Hollywood Reporter

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