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This Is Us star Justin Hartley faces emotional drama in his spare time: the actor is expected to direct The Noel Diary, the Netflix film adaptation of Richard Paul Evans’ 2017 novel.
Hartley will play Jacob, a successful writer who returns home during the holidays to arrange his separate mother’s inheritance after his death. While searching for the many items his mother has kept over the years, he encounters a diary left by someone named Noel, which would possibly involve secrets about Jacob’s beyond. And when he receives an unforeseen guest named Rachel, a lovely woman on a mysterious journey, the two leave to make sense of her afterlife and rewrite her future.
Bonnie Bedelia (Parenthood) and Treat Williams (Everwood) co-star in Hartley, who is also the manufacturer of the film. Charles Shyer (father of the bride, Alfie) will direct.
Hartley recently plays actor Kevin Pearson in This Is Us, which is expected to return for season five this fall on NBC. Although a return date has not yet been announced due to the coronavirus pandemic, series author Dan Fogelman showed that the global fitness crisis would be included in season five, joking that “we have to face things” in the new episodes. Training
Our sister Deadline first reported the news of the cast of Hartley’s Noel Diary. Has your interest in the film been piqued?
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