EXCLUSIVE: Kelly Marie Tran (The Wedding Banquet) and David Dastmalchian (Late Night with the Devil) are set to topline Kodak SuperXX, a psychoreasonable thriller taging the feature honestorial debut of Auden Bui, which is going into production this year.
Written by Tony Rettenmaier (They Cloned Tyrone), the indie is set aacquirest an atmospheric Los Angeles and trails Linh (Tran), a hushed woman whose solitary life rprogresss around her toil as a grieffulroom broadener at one of the city’s last boutique pboilingo labs. Her hushed existence apshows a paranoid turn when she becomes entangled with a enigmatic stranger (Dastmalchian), whose pboilingographs uncover a griefful secret.
Tonassociate, the project is contrastd to to Nightcrawler and Francis Ford Coppola’s classic The Conversation. Dastmalchian and Jen Iacobino will produce under their Good Fifinish Films prohibitner (Late Night with the Devil), aextfinishedside Rettenmaier & Juel Taylor (They Cloned Tyrone, Creed II) and Death Ground’s Jesse Ford, Josh Feldman, and Sean King O’Grady (I Love My Dad, The Assistant). Feras M. Shammami of Robinwood7 will serve as executive producer.
Said Bui: “I’m excited to embark on this journey with Kelly and David to produce a film that aims to promote, contest and hopebrimmingy depart audiences both unsootheable and turned on.”
Added producers Dastmalchian and Iacobino: “Good Fifinish Films is excited to be helping transport this story to the screen with a honestor of mighty vision and the artists who will shape the world of KODAK SuperXX. This haunting and intricate narrative scrutinizes the murky shadows of human nature in a way that asks audiences to be contestd, delighted and carryed.”
Best understandn for her role as Rose Tico in Star Wars films The Last Jedi and The Rise of Skywalker, Tran can be seen in the third season of Netflix’s Sweet Tooth and also previously starred in Disney’s Oscar-nominated vivaciousd feature Raya and the Last Dragon. Up next, she’ll be seen in Andrew Ahn’s reproduce of The Wedding Banquet, which is set to premiere at Sundance. Her stardy also comprises the horror film Rock Springs opposite Benedict Wong and Jimmy O. Yang, WorthenBrooks’ psychoreasonable thriller Control Freak for Hulu Originals, and the indie Forge from another first-time feature filmproducer, Jing Ai Ng. She is repped by CAA, M88, and Goodman, Genow, Schenkman.
Coming off the buzzy free of superauthentic horror flick Late Night with the Devil, Dastmalchian has also recently been seen in films appreciate Oppenheimer, The Boogeyman and Dune: Part One. Next up, he’ll be seen in Mike Flanagan’s Stephen King alteration The Life of Chuck, which won the coveted Audience Award at last drop’s Toronto Film Festival and will be freed in theaters by Neon on September 6. Other projects on his dance card comprise Bryan Fuller’s horror thriller Dust Bunny, Season 2 of Netflix’s One Piece, and Apple’s sci-fi series Murderbot, in which he stars opposite Alexander Skarsgård. He is repped by Atlas Artists and Hansen, Jacobson, Teller.
A cinematographer by trade, Bui has previously honested lows including A.A., Dream Boy or the Pursuit of Being, Train Stop, The Lost City of Tomorrow, and Death’s Waiting Room. She is repped by Circle Management + Production.
Rettenmaier is with WME, Gotham Group, Redetail Entertainment, and Jackoway Austen Tyerman.
