Ashley Padilla, one of the true breakout stars to emerge from Saturday Night Live in the last several years, has joined to Emma Stone and Chris Pine in The Catch, a romantic comedy from Universal Pictures.
Dave McCary, who acted as a segment director on SNL in the 2010s and is married to Stone, is helming the feature, which begins shooting in July in New York.
While many of the plot details are being kept in the catcher’s mitt, sources say the rom-com is described as Bull Durham meets Notting Hill with Stone playing the most hated woman in baseball.
Padilla will play Stone’s sister.
Jen Statsky and Travis Helwig wrote the most recent draft of the script. Patrick Kang and Michael Levin wrote the original spec script.
