James Schamus has begun building his cast for the fact-inspired coming-of-age story College Republicans, reuniting with Indignation star Logan Lerman and signing Asa Butterfield (Sex Education) to portray young versions of Lee Atwater and Karl Rove, according to Deadline.
The crew is eying a production start date in spring or summer of 2021 while financing and distribution deals are developed in the meantime.
In addition to Lerman’s Atwater and Butterfield’s Rove, the film is set to feature Kristine Froseth (Looking for Alaska) as Kate King, the young Republican operative threatening their dreams who is a composite character of real people in the two’s past.
The film is set to be produced by Likely Story’s Anthony Bregman and Peter Cron, The Black List’s Franklin Leonard and Symbolic Exchange’s Schamus, while Jones and Ken Friemann are attached as executive producers on the project.