(Left) Monica Barbaro attends Searchlight Pictures’ ‘A Complete Unknown’ World Premiere on Dec 10, 2024 in Los Angeles. (Right) Callum Turner in ‘Masters of the Air,’ premiering January 26, 2024 on Apple TV+.
Preview:
- Monica Barbaro and Callum Turner have joined ‘One Night Only’.
- Will Gluck re-wrote the script and will direct.
- Universal is backing the rom-com.
If anyone can be credited with helping boost the fortunes of the romantic comedy genre –– on the big screen, at least –– in recent years, it’s filmmaker Will Gluck, who combined the rising star power of Sydney Sweeney and Glen Powell for ‘Anyone But You’.
He’s looking to pull off a similar trick with new high-concept comedy ‘One Night Only’.
Two strangers scramble to find someone to sleep with on the one night of the year when premarital sex is legal. Read the Plot
And according to Deadline, Gluck has a new pair of names whose careers are igniting, as ‘A Complete Unknown’s Monica Barbaro and ‘The Boys in the Boat’s Callum Turner are locked down as leads for the movie.
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What’s the story of ‘One Night Only’?
Monica Barbaro as Emma Brunner in episode 204 of ‘Fubar.’ Photo: Courtesy of Netflix © 2025
The story for ‘One Night Only’ began life with Travis Braun’s script, which topped the 2024 Blacklist for unproduced work that scored the most attention from the industry.
It’s set in a world where premarital sex is outlawed, except for one particular night of the year (think ‘The Purge’ but with more raunchiness).
Two strangers must scramble to find someone to sleep with on that one night.
Universal snapped it up and now Gluck has come aboard, re-written the script and will direct. Whether that means he’s played around with the basic concept is anyone’s guess.
Where else can we see Monica Barbaro and Callum Turner?
Callum Turner in ‘Masters of the Air,’ now showing on Apple TV+.
Barbaro hit big with ‘Top Gun: Maverick’ and was Oscar-nominated for playing Joan Baez opposite Timothée Chalamet‘s Bob Dylan in the aforementioned ‘A Complete Unknown’.
She starred with Arnold Schwarzenegger in two series of Netflix action comedy series ‘FUBAR’ and is currently shooting a major role in Luca Guadagnino’s ‘Artificial’ opposite Andrew Garfield for Amazon MGM.
And she’s also part of the cast for Bart Layton’s ‘Crime 101’ opposite Mark Ruffalo, Halle Berry and Chris Hemsworth.
As for Turner, he’s been seen in the likes of ‘Green Room’, ‘Assassin’s Creed’ and as Theseus Scamander in two of the ‘Fantastic Beasts’ franchise. He was also the lead in Apple TV+’s World War II pilot drama ‘Masters of the Air’.
Coming up, he has ‘Atropia’, ‘Rose of Nevada’ and ‘Eternity’ and will also be part of another Apple series, the novel adaptation ‘Neuromancer’.
When will ‘One Night Only’ be in theaters?
While the studio has not made an official announcement, Deadline’s sources report that Universal is eyeing an August 7th, 2026 release date.
Monica Barbaro arrives on the red carpet of the 97th Oscars® at the Dolby® Theatre at Ovation Hollywood on Sunday, March 2, 2025. Credit/Provider: Etienne Laurent / The Academy. Copyright: ©A.M.P.A.S.
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