What Happens Later: Meg Ryan Rom-Com Lands SAG-AFTRA Waiver Ahead of November Release

According to The Hollywood Reporter, Meg Ryan and David Duchovny have signed a SAG-AFTRA interim agreement for their upcoming romantic comedy What Happens Later.

With this waiver, Ryan and Duchovny are now allowed to promote their movie in TV, radio, print, and online, despite the ongoing actors strike. The film is currently scheduled to arrive in theaters on November 3, pitting it directly against a few independent films such as Sofia Coppola’s Priscilla and Alexander Payne’s The Holdovers.

What to expect in What Happens Later?

“In the film, two ex-lovers, Bill and Willa, get snowed in at a regional airport overnight,” reads the synopsis. “Indefinitely delayed, Willa, a magical thinker, and Bill, a catastrophic one, find themselves just as attracted to and annoyed by one another as they did decades earlier. But as they unpack the riddle of their mutual past and compare their lives to the dreams they once shared, they begin to wonder if their reunion is mere coincidence, or something more enchanted.”

What Happens Later is directed by Ryan from a screenplay she co-wrote with Steven Dietz and Lynn, based on Dietz’s Shooting Star play. The R-rated movie is produced by Jonathan Duffy, Kelly Williams, Laura D. Smith, and Kristin Mann.

This marks Ryan’s first romantic comedy in more than a decade, following performances in Serious Moonlight, My Mom’s New Boyfriend, In the Land of Women, Kate & Leopold, You’ve Got Mail, and When Harry Met Sally. This is also the second time that the Golden Globe nominee has stepped into the director’s chair following 2015’s drama film Ithaca.