Someone Great
Gina Rodriguez stars in the laggard for the Netflix rom - com , Someone bang-up . The streaming service was for the most part responsible for the resurgence of the romanticistic comedy in 2018 . Netflix Originals likeSet It Up , The Kissing Booth , andTo All the Boys I ’ve Loved Beforeattracted a whole lot of witness when they premised last yr , and the company has since announced thatsequels toThe kiss BoothandTo All the Boysare in the works . They also have a promising roster of read-only memory - coms trace up for this yr , including the YA vacation romance novel adaptationLet It Snowand original film likeSomeone Great .
spell and directed bySweet / Viciouscreator Jennifer Kaytin Robinson ( make her directorial debut),Someone Greatstars Rodriguez as Jenny , an up and total music journalist from New York City who lands her dream job at a famous magazine based in San Francisco . However , Jenny ’s swain of nine years ( Lakeith Stanfield ) does n’t desire to leave NYC and is n’t concerned in a long - space relationship . As such , the dyad call it quits and Jenny attempt to mend her humiliated heart by bask one last adventure in New York with her Friend . The moving picture was announced a twelvemonth ago , but now has an official release date , to go along with its first - look footage .
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Netflix neglect theSomeone Greattrailer and bill poster online today , and confirmed that the motion picture will become available for streaming next calendar month on Friday , April 19 . you’re able to check out the trailer and placard below .
The house trailer evoke that , much likeSweet / Vicious , Someone Greatfocuses on the friendship between womanhood . Obviously , in price of tonicity , the read-only memory - com is a far war cry from Robinson ’s acclaimed but dead - lived MTV series about two college student who become vigilantes and James Henry Leigh Hunt down sexual assaulters on their campus , but there are shared themes between the pair . Someone Greatalso gasconade a talented cast that , in add-on toJane the Virginherself , includes thePitch Perfecttrilogy ’s Brittany Snow and DeWanda Wise ( Shots Fired ) as Jenny ’s BFFs , Blair and Erin . The latter is far from a alien to Netflix , having antecedently star in their Spike Lee TV seriesShe ’s dumbfound ta Have It . Similarly , Rodriguez lends her voice to Netflix ’s animatedCarmen Sandiegoseries and Stanfield played L in the company ’s resilient - actionDeath Notemovie version .
Indeed , a growing issue of actors , author , and/or filmmaker have begun make with Netflix over and over again , and with fair reason . The company is not only have it away for allow narrator more creative freedom than other studio do , but they ’ve also been unforced to invest in mid - range budget literary genre fare ( like rom - coms ) that Hollywood has mostly forsake over the last ten yr . A project likeSomeone Greatwould’ve doubtless struggled to get fund elsewhere for that very reason , and seems like the perfect plus to Netflix ’s get subroutine library of modern quixotic funniness . Here ’s hoping the film exist up to its potential on paper .
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