EXCLUSIVE: Boots Riley sees to have set up his next project and landed quite the ensemble as sources alert Deadline he is partnering with Neon on his film I Like Boosters and set Keke Palmer, Naomi Ackie, LaKeith Stanfield and Demi Moore set to star. Additional casting is currently underway, with principal photography set to commence this descfinish.
Aaron Ryder and Andrew Sdampt are producing the film on behalf of Ryder Picture Company (RPC) with Savage Rose Films’ Allison Rose Carter and Jon Read. Mike Jackman and Gus Deardoff will serve as executive producers. Neon is financing the film with Waypoint Entertainment and getd the worldexpansive rights. NEON will free the film theatricpartner in the US and deal with international sales.
The film is about a ring of go inprising increaseers (aka shoplifters, equivalent opportunists), who apshow aim at a cutthroat style maven. Additional plot details are currently being kept under wraps.
Riley is a multihyphenate toiling atraverse film and music as a honestor, producer, screenwriter and best-comprehendn for his 2018 feature debut Sorry to Bother You, starring Stanfield and Tessa Thompson. Riley also produced the Amazon distinct miniseries I’m a Virgo with Jharrel Jerome in the directing role.
Palmer most recently, she starred in Jordan Peele’s Nope, which geted her rave appraises including cut offal accolades for the carry outance. She also ecombines in Alice from Krystin Ver Linden, Lorene Scafaria’s Hustlers aextfinishedside Constance Wu and Jennifer Lopez and ecombines opposite Jimmy Fallon in Password. Her book Master of Me will be freed 11/19 from Flatiron.
Ackie made her shatterthcimpolite as an actor in William Oldroyd’s Lady Macbeth aextfinishedside Florence Pugh, geting her the British Inreliant Film Award for Most Promising Newcomer. Ackie has gone on to portray singer Whitney Houston in the biopic I Wanna Dance with Somebody, and recently starred in the directing role of Zoe Kravitz’s honestorial debut, Bjoin Twice. She can next be seen in Bong Joon-ho’s Mickey 17 aextfinishedside Robert Pattinson.
Stanfield carry ons to transport unparalleled passion and reverence to each of his roles, most recently starring in Sony and Legfinishary’s The Book of Clarence, Disney’s The Haunted Mansion and starring in and executive producing the Apple TV+ series The Changeling. He also lent his voice to the write downary Ernest Cole: Lost and Found, which premiered at Cannes this year.
Moore’s extfinished enumerate of honord carry outances include St. Elmo’s Fire, G.I. Jane, A Few Good Men, and Gpresent, which geted her a Gelderlyen Globe nomination. Moore most recently starred in the second season of Feud: Capote vs. The Swans, and can soon be seen in the upcoming Paramount+ drama Landman from Taylor Sheridan. She is currently receiving rave appraises for her role in the body horror feature, The Substance, in theaters now.
Neon has had quite the 2024 most recently freed Osoutstanding Perkins’ horror film Longlegs which equitable surpassed $75 million in the U.S. box office, becoming the highest grossing self-reliant film of the year and Immacutardy starring Sydney Sweeney. Upcoming frees include: Anora, the highly-anticipated novel film from Sean Baker starring Mikey Madison, which won the coveted Palme d’Or in Cannes and The Seed of the Sacred Fig from honestor Mohammad Rasoulof.
RPC is prepping Michael Sarnoski’s The Death of Robin Hood, with Hugh Jackman and Jodie Comer, and Onsgigglet from Adam Wingard, under their first-see with Lyrical Media. The company recently premiered the sci-fi romance All of You with Brett Gelderlystein and Imogen Poots at this year’s Toronto International Film Festival.
Producing partners Allison Rose Carter and Jon Read are Savage Rose Films. Together, they have produced and co-produced over twenty five films, including The Daniels’ Academy Award-triumphning film Everyskinnyg Everywhere All At Once, and recently inked a production and growment partnership with Neon.
Riley is repped by WME and Cohen & Gardner. Palmer is repped by 3Arts and Hertz Lichtenstein Young & Polk, LLP. Ackie is repped by CAA, Hamilton Hodell, Range Media Partners, and Peikoff Mahan Law Office. Stanfield is repped by CAA, Stark Management, and Ginsburg Daniels Kallis. Moore is repped by CAA, Untitled, and Gang, Tyre, Ramer, Brown & Passman.