Ryan Gosling, Emma Stone musical La La Land pushed to December

We’ll all have to wait a little longer to see Ryan Gosling and Emma Stone channel Fred Astaire and Ginger Rogers.

Summit Entertainment has announced that La La Land has been pushed back from its previously scheduled July 15 release date. Instead, Damien Chazelle’s modern-day musical will open Dec. 2 in limited release before going wide on Dec. 16.

Chazelle, who scored an Oscar nomination for Whiplash, wrote and directed his musical love letter to the city of Los Angeles, starring Gosling and Stone as musician, Sebastian, and struggling actress, Mia. The two see each other as kindred spirits, only to find their blossoming relationship threatened by success. J.K. Simmons also has a role in the film.

“There’s an incredible romanticism in L.A. that you don’t always see when you’re stuck in traffic on the 405,” Chazelle told EW about La La Land in December. “I wanted to make a big love letter to the city and focus on that push and pull that all young artists experience, between dreams and reality, which old Hollywood musicals are so good at expressing. I just love the idea of a whole emotional arc told purely visually and musically. And it’s a city that’s so filled with dreamers, most of whom won’t make it. I think there’s something poetic about that.”

With its new wide-release date of Dec. 16, La La Land will open in the middle of awards season against Rogue One: A Star Wars Story and the Will Smith-starring drama, Collateral Beauty