Overview
- Deadline reports the feature, titled Mattress Mack, from HappyBad Bungalow, Roosevelt Film Lab and Phiphen.
- Production is scheduled to begin this month in Texas, and Houston Public Media notes no release date has been announced.
- Magnussen stars as McIngvale with Dianna Agron, Darby Lee-Stack and Rob Corddry attached.
- Shane Andries wrote the screenplay and will direct, with producers including Andries, Jon Wroblewski, Christian Sosa, Molly Conners, Billy Magnussen, Anne Hollister, Amanda Bowers, Alex Spatt and Lance Kramer, and executive producers Carl Effenson, Curtis Knobbe, Sergi Nakaidze and Meg Jenkins-Locke.
- The narrative spans the early 1980s and 2000s, portraying the founding of Gallery Furniture with wife Linda, McIngvale’s disaster-relief work, and their youngest daughter’s struggle with obsessive-compulsive disorder, with recent philanthropy highlighted by a donation of 500 mattresses after the July Fourth Hill Country floods.