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On September 26, Sony Pictures Classics’ “Eleanor the Great” will bring June Squibb back into the headlines.

Scarlett Johansson’s directorial debut, a ‘comically poignant exploration of how the stories we hear become the stories we tell’, is led by the Oscar-nominated ‘Nebraska’ star, who charmed audiences with his sleeper action comedy ‘Thelma’ last year.

The logline reads: “In “Eleanor the Great,” June Squibb brings to vivid life the witty and proudly troublesome 94-year-old Eleanor Morgenstein, who after a devastating loss, tells a tale that takes on a dangerous life of its own.’ Also the film also star Erin Kellyman, Jessica Hecht, and Chiwetel Ejiofor. Johansson serves as producer alongside Jonathan Lia, Keenan Flynn, Trudie Styler, Celine Rattray, Jessamine Burgum, and Kara Durrett.

The movie is also set to screen at TIFF in September and premiered in Un Certain Regard at Cannes in May.  Actress Johansson talked about the project with Hollywood Reporter, Johansson said, “It would be easier to make something that was the sequel of a $180 million movie or a genre movie that was subpar. To get much, much, much less money for an independent film with an original story that has a lead actor who was 94 was very, very, very challenging.”