Apple TV+ Lands New Comedy Starring and Executive Produced by Owen Wilson

Apple TV+ today announced it will expand its award-winning comedy slate with a new 10-episode comedy starring and executive produced by Owen Wilson (“Loki,” “The Royal Tenenbaums,” “Midnight in Paris”) and created, written by and executive produced by Jason Keller (“Ford v Ferrari”).

Starring Wilson in the lead role, the comedy follows Pryce Cahill, an over-the-hill, ex-pro golfer whose career was derailed prematurely 20 years ago. After he gets fired from his job at an Indiana sporting goods store and his wife walks out on him, Pryce hedges his bets entirely on a troubled 17-year-old golf phenom.

Hailing from Apple Studios, the untiled series will be directed by Jonathan Dayton and Valerie Faris (“Fleishman is in Trouble,” “Little Miss Sunshine,” “Battle of the Sexes”), and executive produced by Propagate Content’s Ben Silverman (“The Office”), Howard T. Owens and Rodney Ferrell, Entertainment 360’s Guymon Casady (upcoming “Ripley” and “The Fall Guy”), Piece of Work’s Lee Eisenberg and Natalie Sandy, Chris Moynihan, Keller and Wilson.

Owen Wilson bio

Owen Wilson is one of contemporary cinema’s most successful actors, having earned great acclaim for his memorable turns in mainstream and independent films.

Wilson will next star opposite Woody Harrelson in crime thriller Lips Like Sugar, set during the 1984 Olympics in Los Angeles. Grammy winner Brantley Gutierrez will direct the film, which is loosely based on a true story of a missing girl and the two detectives whose lives become intertwined in the search to find her.

Wilson starred in the much-anticipated second season of the critically acclaimed hit series Loki for Disney+, in which he plays Mobius, a Time Variance Authority (TVA) agent, opposite Tom Hiddleston, who reprised his role as the God of Mischief.

Wilson recently starred in Disney’s Haunted Mansion remake, alongside Jamie Lee Curtis, Rosario Dawson, Danny DeVito, LaKeith Stanfield, and Tiffany Haddish. Wilson starred in Paint as Carl Nargle, a beloved veteran painter who teaches the craft on a local public television show. Wilson also served as executive producer on the independent comedy for IFC, written and directed by Brit McAdams.

Wilson starred in 2022’s Secret Headquarters, a high concept family action movie produced by Jerry Bruckheimer for Paramount+. Wilson starred opposite Jennifer Lopez in Universal’s romantic comedy, Marry Me, based on the graphic novel by Bobby Crosby, Wes Anderson’s film, The French Dispatch, which premiered at the Cannes Film Festival in July 2021, and opposite Salma Hayek in Mike Cahill’s sci-fi romance Bliss, which premiered on Amazon Prime in February 2021.

In 2017, Wilson starred in an adaptation of Raquel J. Palacio’s novel Wonder, alongside Julia Roberts and Jacob Tremblay. He was also featured in Warner Bros and Lawrence Sher’s Father Figures alongside Ed Helms, Christopher Walken, J.K. Simmons, and Glenn Close. Wilson appeared in the American comedy film Lost in London, written, directed, and starring Woody Harrelson. The film was shot and screened live in real-time in select theaters across the world in January 2017.

In 2011, he starred in Woody Allen’s Academy Award®-nominated feature Midnight in Paris, alongside Rachel McAdams and Marion Cotillard. Wilson’s performance as screenwriter and aspiring novelist Gil Pender garnered him a Golden Globe nomination in the category of Best Actor in a Motion Picture Musical or Comedy.

Wilson’s string of box office successes also include Little Fockers, the third installment of the blockbuster Fockers series, opposite Ben Stiller and Robert De Niro; Marley & Me, with Jennifer Aniston, based on the popular memoir by John Grogan; the Night At The Museum franchise opposite Robin Williams and Ben Stiller; the smash hit comedy Wedding Crashers, opposite Vince Vaughn; the romantic comedy You, Me And Dupree; and as the voice of Lightning McQueen in Disney’s Cars, Cars 2 and Cars 3.

Wilson has collaborated with director Wes Anderson eight times, including the Academy Award® nominated The Grand Budapest Hotel; The Darjeeling Limited; The Life Aquatic with Steve Zissou, co-starring Bill Murray and Anjelica Huston; The Royal Tenenbaums, for which he and Anderson were nominated for an Academy Award® and BAFTA for Best Original Screenplay; Rushmore, which Wilson co-wrote and co-executive produced; and Anderson’s directorial debut, Bottle Rocket, which Wilson starred in and co-wrote. Wilson also lent his voice to Anderson’s Academy Award®-nominated animated feature Fantastic Mr. Fox.

Wilson’s additional acting credits include Masterminds, No Escape, She’s Funny That Way, Paul Thomas Anderson’s Inherent Vice, The Internship, The Big Year, Hall Pass, How Do You Know, Night at the Museum, Wedding Crashers, Starsky & Hutch, Shanghai Knights, I Spy, Behind Enemy Lines, Zoolander I & II, Meet the Parents, Anaconda and The Cable Guy.

Jason Keller bio

Jason Keller’s projects have in common that they are character-driven and infused with spectacle and grit.

Keller’s produced projects have included the 2019 Fox release Ford v. Ferrari, directed by Oscar nominee James Mangold, and starring Christian Bale and Matt Damon. The feature was nominated for Best Motion Picture by the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences and won both Best Achievement in Film Editing and Best Achievement in Sound Editing.

Keller initiated the project and shared co-writing credit with the writing team of Jez and John-Henry Butterworth (Edge of Tomorrow). The film chronicles the fact-based yet improbable story of the eccentric team of American engineers and designers led by Ford to create a state-of-the-art race car to beat the unbeatable Ferrari team at the 1966 Le Mans World Championship in France.

Keller, who boarded the project at its inception, stayed with it through all stages of its development and did an immense amount of research into the legendary account ultimately providing backstory and details never before revealed. Having been born and raised in Indianapolis, he grew up loving the thrills and drama of American racing and was eager to join the project when Fox originally brought it to him. His own love of racing as well as his immersive research infused his scripting with a fan’s passion and the pride of a stateside racing buff.

Keller’s other screenwriting credits include the emotional action-thriller Machine Gun Preacher, starring Gerard Butler (300, Law Abiding Citizen) and directed by Marc Forster (Quantum of Solace); Mirror Mirror, the wildly original reimagining of the classic Brothers Grimm fairytale Snow White, starring Julia Roberts, Lily Collins, and Armie Hammer; and the action thriller Escape Plan, starring Arnold Schwarzenegger and Sylvester Stallone.

Keller’s projects share a thorough line of suspense, action, and unique perspective that were integral in attracting talent and studio support. It was, in fact, Keller’s original screenplay of the fact-based Machine Gun Preacher that enticed Butler to join the film, and it was his re-imagining of Snow White that attracted Julia Roberts to that project.

Before his current success as a screenwriter, Keller worked in almost every capacity of film production, including as a grip, a gaffer, an assistant, and countless other jobs that gave the aspiring writer the tools to better understand the mechanics of filmmaking.

Keller attended Ball University in Indiana during which time he was recommended for a year-long theater and film studies program at Regents College in London. After writing, directing, and studying classic cinema in London, Keller moved to Los Angeles to pursue a filmmaking career with a focus on screenwriting.