EXCLUSIVE: Jermaine Fowler (Sorry to Trouble You) has wrapped manufacturing on a brand new psychological thriller directed by Steve Pink (Scorching Tub Time Machine).
Rounding out the solid of the pic, shot beneath a SAG-AFTRA Interim Settlement, are James Morosini (I Love My Dad), Pauline Chalamet (The Intercourse Lives of Faculty Women), Edy Modica (Jury Obligation), Rob Yang (Succession), and Brendan Hunt (Ted Lasso). The manufacturing corporations concerned are Hurley/Pickle Productions (The Wheel), Phiphen (Butcher’s Crossing), Vary Media Companions, and Gummy Movies (What Doesn’t Float).
Written by Sam Johnson and Connor Diedrich, the movie follows Allen Perkins (Fowler) via numerous twists and activates a descent into darkness as he hosts his outdated school friends for the weekend. Producers included Josh Jason and Molly Gilula of Hurley/Pickle Productions, together with Molly Conners of Phiphen, AJ Bourscheid & Austin Lantero of Vary Media Companions, and Chalamet, Rachel Walden, and Luca Balser of Gummy Movies.
In an announcement to Deadline, Pink known as the thriller “one of many coolest movies I’ve ever had the chance to direct in my profession.
“I’m grateful for the extraordinary solid that got here collectively round an exceptional script that explores themes residing within the darker and probably supernatural corners of the human expertise,” continued the filmmaker. “This movie blurs the strains between thriller, science fiction, and comedy parts in a means that may maintain audiences stunned and at instances, downright terrified!”
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An actor and comic finest recognized for starring in movies like Coming 2 America, Judas and the Black Messiah, and Sorry to Trouble You, Fowler will subsequent be seen in Legendary’s reimagining of the horror pic Faces of Dying, and Amazon MGM Studios’ comedy Ricky Stanicky.
Recognized for steering and starring within the a number of SXSW prize-winning comedy I Love My Dad, Morosini has additionally been seen on sequence like The Intercourse Lives of Faculty Women, American Horror Story, Feud, and Loopy Ex-Girlfriend, amongst others.
Chalamet stars in Max’s The Intercourse Lives of Faculty Ladys, which has been renewed for a 3rd season, and was beforehand seen in Judd Apatow’s The King of Staten Island. She additionally produced and starred within the dramedy What Doesn’t Float.
Modica discovered a breakout undertaking this yr as a part of the ensemble of the smash hit Amazon Freevee sequence, Jury Obligation. She has additionally appeared on the reveals Made for Love and Excessive Upkeep.
Yang was most just lately seen starring alongside Kiefer Sutherland within the Paramount+ spy sequence Rabbit Gap, having beforehand put in memorable activates reveals like Succession and The Resident. Most up-to-date for him on the movie facet was the acclaimed horror comedy The Menu, which generated a lot dialogue upon its launch via Searchlight.
The co-creator of Apple TV+’s massively fashionable comedy Ted Lasso, the place he performed Coach Beard, Hunt has additionally been seen on reveals like Bless This Mess and Key and Peele, together with movies like We’re the Millers.
Maybe finest recognized for steering each Scorching Tub Time Machine movies, together with the Justin Lengthy school comedy Accepted, Pink’s most up-to-date function is the indie drama The Wheel, starring Amber Midthunder and Taylor Grey. He co-wrote the scripts for the basic John Cusack movies Excessive Constancy and Grosse Pointe Clean and has additionally helmed episodes of quite a few fashionable sequence — amongst them, Cobra Kai, Santa Clarita Eating regimen, The Detour, and New Lady.
Fowler is repped by UTA, Leisure 360, and Yorn, Levine, Barnes; Morosini by Nameless Content material, Verve, and Goodman, Genow, Schenkman; Chalamet by Nameless Content material, Gersh, and Gang, Tyre, Ramer; Modica by Gersh, Heroes and Villains Leisure, and Myman, Greenspan, Fox; Yang by IAG, Untitled Leisure, and Yorn, Levine, Barnes; Hunt by Gersh, Ferrantino Leisure and Ginsburg Daniels Kallis; and Pink by UTA, Nameless Content material, and Yorn, Levine, Barnes.
