Key Highlights
- Men in Black writer Ed Solomon penned The Christophers which stars Michaela Coel and Ian McKellen, along with Jessica Gunning and James Corden.
- Pic follows estranged relatives (Gunning, Corden) of a famous painter, Julian Sklar, (McKellen) who enlist the help of a struggling artist (Coel) to steal and complete the artist’s unfinished works.
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- His two estranged children (James Corden, Jessica Gunning), desperate for an inheritance, hire Lori, an art restorer and former forger (Michaela Coel), to pose as a prospective assistant in order to access eight unfinished canvases Julian has buried deep in storage.
- Her plan is to complete them, then return them to storage, where they are to be “discovered” upon Julian’s death.
