Jacqueline Bisset has signed on to topline “Journey to Miyakojima,” Variety reports. Scheduled to begin shooting this October in Japan, the family drama centers on “a quietly ailing” family matriarch and NBA team owner who hopes to “reunite her shattered family at a serene island off the coast of Okinawa, thousands of miles away from home,” the source summarizes. She convinces her granddaughter, who suffers from an eating disorder that’s getting increasingly serious, to stay at a guesthouse on the island, “where its beauty, a chance meeting with a treasure hunter, and a century-old shipwreck heal their wounds.”
The 2015 Lily Tomlin-starrer “Grandma” also explored the relationship between a grandmother and her in-crisis granddaughter. “The Americans’” Julia Garner portrayed a teenager dealing with an unplanned pregnancy.
“Journey to Miyakojima’s” cast includes Eriko Takeda (“Venus and Apollo”) and Mari Natsuki (“It’s Not That I Can’t Get Married, I Just Don’t Do It”). Slony Sow (“Parisiennes”) is writing and directing the drama.
Bisset’s recent credits include “Miss You Already,” “Rizzoli & Isles,” and “Dancing on the Edge.” She won a Golden Globe for her performance in the latter, a BBC miniseries about a jazz band.
