NEWS: 30WEST just revealed that David Harbour (“Stranger Things,” Black Widow) will star in Cooper Raiff’s The Trashers. Raiff, whose sophomore debut Cha Cha Real Smooth starring Dakota Johnson was picked up by Apple TV+ after Sundance, will direct from a script by Adam R. Perlman (“Billions”), with rewrites by Raiff.
The feature shoots this Fall. The Trashers recounts the rise and fall of Jimmy Galante (Harbour), a Danbury, Connecticut trash baron and the purported inspiration for the character of Tony Soprano.
“I feel so lucky to be working with David,” Director Cooper Raiff said. “He’s a magnificent actor and the perfect Jimmy Galante because he’s truly tough and impossibly warm. He’s also the best person and I hope he reads this and knows I want to be friends with him forever.”
In 2004, Galante bought the city’s minor league hockey team and assigned his teenage son to run it. The team gained notoriety for their rough and violent style of play, but also developed a wide fan base as they started to win more and more games. The team’s success and fame all came to an abrupt end with Galante’s arrest on 72 criminal charges. Bada-bing, Bada-boom.
30WEST will finance the feature. Producers include Tom McNulty of MC2 Entertainment and Andrew Morrison of Yellow Bear Films. Micah Green, Dan Steinman and Dan Friedkin will executive produce for 30WEST alongside Jon Wertheim and Adam R. Perlman. AJ Galante, on whose life-rights the story is based, will serve as an associate producer. Angelo Demo is the casting director.
Harbour is best known as Jim Hopper in the Netflix hit series “Stranger Things,” which has earned two Emmy Award nominations, two Screen Actors Guild nominations and a Screen Actors Guild win, as well as a Critics’ Choice Award. Harbour will next be seen in We Have a Ghost for Legendary Entertainment and Universal Pictures’ Violent Night. His other recent credits include Black Widow for Marvel Studios/Disney, and HBO’s No Sudden Move and Netflix’s Extraction. The actor is repped by WME and Peikoff Mahan. Raiff is represented by ICM Partners and Adam Kersh of Fusion Entertainment.
30WEST has worked on many of the last half-decade’s most memorable projects, from streaming break-outs “Tiger King” and Fyre to award-winning theatrical features including Late Night and I, Tonya. Upcoming titles include: Ruben Östlund and Imperative’s Triangle of Sadness with Woody Harrelson, which will have its world premiere in Cannes next month; The Crow with Bill Skarsgård and FKA Twigs attached to star; and Marc Webb’s genre bending thriller Day Drinker.
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