Jaden Smith and Cara Delevingne will star as the leads in Overbrook Entertainment’s romantic drama “Year in a Life,” TheWrap has learned.
Slovenian director Mitja Okorn (“Letters to Santa”) will direct, and Jeffrey Addiss and Will Matthews wrote the screenplay.
“Year in a Life” follows a 17-year-old boy who learns his girlfriend is dying and plans to give her their entire life together in the year she has left.
Will Smith and James Lassiter’s Overbrook is producing along with Marc Bienstock, and production is expected to begin this spring in Toronto.
Delevingne was last seen in “Suicide Squad” and her upcoming projects include “Valerian and the City of a Thousand Planets,” “Tulip Fever” and “Fever Heart.” She is represented by WME.
Smith’s most recent films include “The Karate Kid” and “After Earth,” and currently, he appears in the Netflix drama “The Get Down.” His upcoming project, “The Good Lord Bird,” is in script stage.
Smith is represented by WME and Overbrook.