Nate Bargatze has lined up a comedy powerhouse for his feature acting debut.
Will Forte, Colin Jost and Kumail Nanjiani have joined the cast of The Breadwinner, a comedy feature that Eric Appel is directing for TriStar Pictures.
Zach Cherry, Kate Berlant and Martin Herlihy have also boarded the feature, which begins production next week in Atlanta.
The story sees the life of Bargatze’s character turned upside down when his supermom wife lands a deal on Shark Tank. The lifelong breadwinner of the family becomes a stay-at-home dad, and quickly realizes he’s in way over his head.
Mandy Moore is already on board as Bargatze’s wife and Stella Grace Fitzgerald (Rebel Moon), Birdie Borria (The Fabelmans) and Charlotte Ann Tucker (Thunderbolts*) play the onscreen couple’s daughters in the project.
Bargatze, one of the world’s top touring comedians, co-wrote the script and is producing the film with Dan Lagna. Former Marvel Studios exec Jeremy Latcham will also produce for Wonder Project.
Zach Cherry, Kate Berlant and Martin Herlihy.
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Sony has set a March 13, 2026 release date for the comedy.
Forte, who spent eight seasons on Saturday Night Live, is coming off starring alongside Tina Fey and Steve Carell in Netflix’s Four Seasons. He is represented by UTA, Rise and Hansen Jacobson.
Jost is also a longtime SNL-er, writing on the show since 2005 and acting as co-anchor of Weekend Update since 2014, earning five Writers Guild Awards, two Peabody Awards and 15 Emmy nominations for his contributions to the show. Moviewise, he has appeared in How to Be Single, Coming 2 America, and Tom and Jerry. Jost is represented by CAA and Yorn, Levine.
Nanjiani parlayed his stand-up into a multi-faceted career that has earned him Oscar and Emmy nominations for movies and shows such as The Big Sick and Hulu’s Welcome to Chippendales, respectively. His credits range from Marvel’s Eternals to Lucasfilm’s Obi-Wan Kenobi to Hulu’s Only Murders in the Building. He is repped by UTA, Mosaic and Schreck Rose.
Cherry, who was part of Upright Citizens Brigade, is a series regular on Apple TV+’s Severance and appeared in the hit Amazon series Fallout. Among his feature credits are Nicole Holofcener’s You Hurt My Feelings opposite Julia Louis-Dreyfus and Marvel’s Shang-Chi and the Legend of the Ten Rings and Spider-Man: Homecoming. He is represented by CAA and Edna Cowan Management.
Berlant earned hosannahs for sold-out runs of Kate, her one-woman off-Broadway play directed by Bo Burnham and her comedy special Cinnamon in the Wind, also directed by Burnham, is now streaming on Hulu. Among her screen credits are appearances in Quentin Tarantino’s Once Upon a Time in Hollywood and the Amazon series A League of Their Own.
Herlihy is a writer and performer best known for his videos on Saturday Night Live as part of the group Please Don’t Destroy. The group made their film debut in 2023 with Please Don’t Destroy: The Treasure of Foggy Mountain, which was produced by Universal and Judd Apatow. He is represented by WME, Mosaic and Ziffren Brittenham.
