Owen Wilson Golf Comedy Series For Apple Casts Peter Dager As Co-Lead

Nellie Andreeva

April 5, 2024 at 12:00 PM·1 min read

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After a search, young actor Peter Dager (Insidious: The Red Door) has landed the co-lead opposite Owen Wilson in Apple TV+’s 10-episode comedy series created, written by and executive produced by Jason Keller.

The untitled comedy stars Wilson as Pryce Cahill, an over-the-hill, ex-pro golfer whose career was derailed prematurely 20 years ago. After he gets fired from his job at an Indiana sporting goods store and his wife walks out on him, Pryce hedges his bets entirely on a troubled 17-year-old golf phenom, played by Dager.

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The Apple Studios production will be directed by Jonathan Dayton and Valerie Faris (Fleishman Is In Trouble, Little Miss Sunshine) and executive produced by Propagate’s Ben Silverman, Howard T. Owens and Rodney Ferrell, Entertainment 360’s Guymon Casady, Piece of Work’s Lee Eisenberg and Natalie Sandy, Chris Moynihan, Keller, Wilson as well as Bill Callahan.

Cuban-American actor Dager was recently seen in Insidious 5, directed by Patrick Wilson, and had a major role in the 2022 film Who Invited Charlie? directed by Xavier Manique. He is repped by Gersh, Namoff & Company, and Schreck Rose Dapello.

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