Joining the Netflix collection of 2022 ROM-COM releases is the senior year Rebel Wilson. Wilson, who also produced films along with Todd Garner and Chris Bender, had rested from acting in 2020 to focus on his health. This story follows a cheerleader who tries to reclaim the life of his high school after a 20-year-old coma. The senior year will be released at Netflix on May 2022.
Alex Hardcastle (Grace and Frankie, Love, Simon) are directing, and Brandon Scott Jones wrote a script based on the spec of Andrew Knauer and Arthur Pielli. Hardcastle, famous for directing episodes of TV series TV and recreation, Grace and Frankie, and the office will direct the feature film for the first time.
Jeremy Stein, Jake Wagner, and Jake Weiner is an executive manufacturer. Paramount Player, Paramount Pictures New Division that focuses on contemporary genre films from newer directors, will produce films with Netflix. The film was originally not announced on Netflix, but it seems that streamers secretly get the right to it as seen in the issue of 1242 weekly production.
This is the other we know about the senior year Netflix:
When will the senior year be released on Netflix?
It has been confirmed by Netflix that Rom-com will prime for streaming services on Saturday, May 14, 2022.
What is the senior year plot?
The story of the senior year Netflix followed a secondary school cheerleader who woke up from a comma 20 years and returned to secondary school to try to get back his status and claim the Queen Prom crown that avoided it. This is a film logline:
This comedy is located in 1997 and tells the story of Ruby, the most popular girl in her high school. He was the captain of the cheerleading squad, dating Quarterback and was on his way to become a prom Queen. Girls want to be him and guys want to be with him. He has everything – until he falls from the cheerleading pyramid and goes to a coma. Fast forward 20 years later and Ruby finally got up from his coma as a 37-year-old woman. He returned to his high school and tried to carry his role as his school star. Most importantly, he was still ready to win the crown as a prom queen.
Who was thrown into the senior year?
Senior Netflix year will be led by Rebel Wilson (perfect pitch, Jojo Rabbit), who plays Ruby’s main role. Wilson again acted with the senior year after taking a year’s break in 2020 where he lost 60 pounds.
This will be Netflix Full Full Full First on Netflix. He is indeed a not romantic feature but it’s not a global Netflix release.
Cast alongside Rebel Wilson in Senior Year are:
- Mary Holland
- Alicia Silverstone
- Zoe Chao
- Sam Richardson
- Justin Hartley
- Angourie Rice
- Brandon Scott Jones
- Chris Parnell
- Michael Cimino
- Jeremy Ray Taylor
- Molly Brown
- Tyler Barnhardt
- Avantika
- Joshua Colley
- Lucy Taylor
What’s the production status on Senior Year?
Thanks to issue 1242 of Production Weekly, we knew that Senior Year went into production in May 2021.
The first batch of filming officially began in Atlanta, Georgia on May 25th, and ran to July 6th, 2021. After a short break, filming continued on July 8th before finally ending on September 4th, 2021.