Paramount Pictures has expanded the cast of its highly anticipated adaptation of Gabrielle Zevin’s bestselling novel Tomorrow, and Tomorrow, and Tomorrow, with Sky Yang and Sean Kaufman joining Daisy Edgar-Jones in the film’s central ensemble. Yang has been cast as Sam Masur, while Kaufman will portray Marx Watanabe, completing the trio of characters at the heart of one of the most celebrated contemporary novels of the past decade.
The film follows Sadie Green and Sam Masur, childhood friends whose paths cross again as college students. Alongside Sam’s charismatic roommate, Marx Watanabe, they build the independent video game studio Unfair Games, embarking on a decades-long journey marked by creative ambition, friendship, love and heartbreak. Spanning the rise of the video game industry throughout the 1990s and 2000s, the story explores the complexities of artistic collaboration and the relationships that shape a lifetime.
Oscar-winning filmmaker Sian Heder, who won the Academy Award for writing and directing CODA, is writing and directing the adaptation. Her screenplay builds on earlier drafts by Mark Bomback and Gabrielle Zevin, who also serves as an executive producer. Wyck Godfrey, Marty Bowen and Isaac Klausner are producing through Temple Hill.
Daisy Edgar-Jones, whose casting was announced earlier, stars as Sadie Green, the brilliant game designer at the centre of the story. Following acclaimed performances in Normal People, Where the Crawdads Sing and Twisters, Edgar-Jones leads the adaptation’s central creative partnership as Paramount brings Zevin’s beloved novel to the screen.
Sky Yang takes on the role of Sam Masur, one of the novel’s two protagonists and Sadie’s lifelong collaborator. Yang recently received critical acclaim for his lead performance in Justin Lin’s Last Days, which premiered at the Sundance Film Festival. His recent work also includes roles in the horror film Whistle, Zack Snyder’s Rebel Moon, and the upcoming projects Unspeakable alongside Eliza Scanlen and The Exiles with Sam Worthington. Landing the role of Sam marks the biggest opportunity of Yang’s career and positions him as one of Hollywood’s emerging young talents.
Sean Kaufman will play Marx Watanabe, whose friendship with Sadie and Sam forms the emotional backbone of the story. Kaufman is best known for Amazon Prime Video’s The Summer I Turned Pretty and has several high-profile projects on the horizon, including Ron Howard’s war drama Alone at Dawn alongside Adam Driver, Anne Hathaway and Betty Gilpin, as well as an untitled feature from Oscar-winning directing duo Daniel Kwan and Daniel Scheinert starring Matt Damon.
Since its publication, Tomorrow, and Tomorrow, and Tomorrow has become one of the defining novels of the decade. It spent more than a year on The New York Times Best Sellers list and has sold more than 4 million copies worldwide, including over 2 million in North America alone. The novel also won the Goodreads Choice Award for Fiction and was named Amazon’s Book of the Year, cementing its reputation as one of the most acclaimed literary works of recent years.
The novel takes its title from William Shakespeare’s famous “Tomorrow, and tomorrow, and tomorrow” soliloquy from Macbeth, a literary reference that echoes the story’s themes of creativity, ambition, love and the passage of time. Zevin, a lifelong gamer and Harvard graduate, previously adapted her novel The Storied Life of A.J. Fikry for the screen and also earned an Independent Spirit Award nomination for her screenplay for Conversations with Other Women.
With Daisy Edgar-Jones, Sky Yang and Sean Kaufman now confirmed as its three central leads, an Oscar-winning filmmaker behind the camera and one of the decade’s most acclaimed novels as its source material, Tomorrow, and Tomorrow, and Tomorrow is shaping up to be one of Paramount Pictures’ most anticipated literary adaptations. The film is currently scheduled to arrive in theatres on November 12, 2027.
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