Universal Pictures has picked up an untitled Miami-set comedy project pitch that hails from actors-turned-writers Natalie Morales (“Dead to Me,” “Santa Clarits Diet”) and Cyrina Fiallo (“Brooklyn Nine-Nine,” “Barry”) and will be produced by Phil Lord and Chris Miller.
The story centers on a Cuban-American woman forced to return to her overbearing family in Miami for a baptism, a quinceanera, a wedding and a funeral. Morales and Fiallo will now write the screenplay and executive produce.
Lord & Miller have a first-look deal with the studio and has been consistently setting up projects there for the past year.
Source: THR
