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Exclusive: 93-year-old Oscar nominee June Squibb (Nebraska) has found her first, long overdue leading role in Thelma, an upcoming “action” comedy written and directed by Josh Margolin, which has wrapped production. The actress is joined in the ensemble by Fred Hechinger (The White Lotus), Richard Roundtree (Shaft), Parker Posey (The Staircase), Clark Gregg (Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D.) and Malcolm McDowell (A Clockwork Orange).

Margolin’s first feature, based on a real-life experience involving his grandmother, is (half-jokingly) billed as Nebraska meets Mission: Impossible. It centers on 90-year-old grandmother Thelma Post (Squibb), who gets duped by a phone scammer pretending to be her grandson and sets out on a uniquely treacherous quest to reclaim what was taken from her.

Zoë Worth, a longtime collaborator of Margolin’s, and producing partner Chris Kaye started developing Thelma after reading an early draft in their writer’s group, Rock & Roll Universe. The film will be their first produced together.

Exclusive: TBS has put in development The Final Friend, a half-hour comedy from My Boyfriend Is a Robot creators Chloe Searcy & Josh Margolin, executive producer Deb Spera (Criminal Minds) and Sony Pictures Television.

Written by Searcy and Margolin, The Final Friend is a crime comedy about a close-knit group of friends whose lives get thrown into chaos when one of them starts dating a serial killer.

Searcy, Margolin and Spera executive produce. Sony Pictures TV is the studio.

Searcy and Margolin first collaborated on My Boyfriend is a Robot, a Freeform original digital series, and recently on feature Our Demons, with Paul Feig’s Powderkeg set to executive produce. Margolin co-wrote, starred in and edited the horror-comedy feature Deep Murder. Searcy also recently wrote on thirtysomething(else) for ABC and is currently developing a movie with Focus Features. Searcy is repped by Authentic Talent & Literary Management and the duo is...