Shari & Lamb Chop (2024 Film)

Shari & Lewis is an upcoming biopic movie that's based off of the life of Shari Lewis, and how she had became world's famous puppeteer, and was best known as the original puppeteer of the sock puppet, Lamb Chop. The film is being directed by Bill Condon, with the script written by Jon Gunn and Kristie Macosko Krieger. The film will star Jessica Chastain as Shari Lewis, and the movie had began being in production in Los Angeles, California in January of 2023, and is expected to wrap in late June of 2023. The movie is scheduled to be released theatrically in theaters on November 27th, 2024. The film will be distributed by Universal Pictures.

Plot
The movie focuses on the life of an American puppeteer name Shari Lewis, the original puppeteer of the sock puppet, Lamb Chop.

Cast

 * Jessica Chastain as Shari Lewis
 * Katherine McNamara as Mallory Lewis
 * Bobby Cannavale as Stan Lewis
 * Robert De Niro as Jeremy Tarcher
 * Jason Segel as Abraham Hurwitz
 * Elizabeth Perkins as Ann Ritz Hurwitz
 * Dylan Cannon as Dr. Ruth Westheimer

Release
The film is currently scheduled to be released on November 27th, 2021. It was originally scheduled for a December 23rd, 2024 release date, however, the movie got pushed up to one month earlier.

Production
On July 2017, it was announced that the biopic movie of Shari Lewis is in the works, with Bill Condon set to direct the movie after his work of the live-action version of Disney's Beauty And The Beast. On September 2017, Jon Gunn and Kristie Macosko Krieger were hired to write the script for the film. And then, not that long on March of 2018, Jody Lee Lipes was hired to do the cinematography for the film. On September 2018, the movie had a release date for December 25th, 2021, but, however, on April of 2020, the release date was removed due to Covid-19 pandemic. But then in September of 2021, Jessica Chastain was cast to play Shari Lewis. On February of 2022, Bill Condon announced that the film will be released on December 23rd, 2024. Principal photography was set to begin during the summer of 2022, but however, it was pushed back to January of 2023. However, it wasn't that long until October of 2022, when Katherine McNamara, Bobby Cannavale, Robert De Niro, Jason Segel, and Elizabeth Perkins were all cast for the film. Then principal photography officially begun in January 2022 in Los Angeles, California, and is expected to wrap in late June of 2023. On April of 2023, Bill Condon then announced that instead of December 23rd release date, it got pushed up to November 27th, 2024, which is currently the release date of this movie. On April of 2023, Dylan Cannon was tapped to play Dr. Ruth Westheimer.