EXCLUSIVE: Fresh off her second Oscar win for her performance in Poor Things, Emma Stone is starting to put together her future slate as she is in talks in an untitled film for Universal Pictures with Dave McCary in talks to direct.

Patrick Kang and Michael Levin, supervising producers of NBC and UTV’s Young Rock, wrote the original spec screenplay for the film. Shawn Levy, Dan Cohen, and Dan Levine will produce through 21 Laps. Michael H. Weber will produce. Stone, McCary and Ali Herting are also in talks to produce through Fruit Tree.

Universal’s Senior Executive Vice President of Production Development Erik Baiers and Creative Executive Jacqueline Garell will oversee the project on behalf of the Studio.

Stone had a busy with not only her Oscar-winning performance in Poor Things but also her critically acclaimed performance the Showtime series The Curse (she also exec produced the series). She can be seen next in Searchlight’s Kinds of Kindness. where she also serves as executive producer. Stone is repped by WME, Anonymous Content and Johnson Shapiro Slewett & Kole.

McCary recently produced A Real Pain for Searchlight, Problemista for A24 and executive producing The Curse. Previously he directed Brigsby Bear and was a writer/director on SNL for 5 seasons. McCary is repped by Mosaic and Myman Greenspan.

Kang & Levin were most recently Supervising Producers on Young Rock, having been on all three seasons for NBC/UTV, and Producers on two seasons of Doogie Kamealoha, M.D. for Disney+. Previously, they staffed on Trial & Error, Mighty Ducks and Perfect Harmony. They met as assistants on How I Met Your Mother. Levin also co-hosts the Philadelphia 76ers “The Rights To Ricky Sanchez: The Sixers Podcast.” Kang and Levin are repped by Kaplan/Perrone Entertainment who brought the spec screenplay to Universal. They are also repped by attorney Sean Marks.