EXCLUSIVE: I Love LA star and author Rachel Sennott has booked a key supporting function alongside Chris Hemsworth, Taron Egerton, Zazie Beetz and Alec Baldwin in Matt Ross’ characteristic Kockroach, which begins filming in Australia subsequent week.
The New York-set crime pic, based mostly on the William Lashner novel, is the story of a mysterious stranger who takes on the town’s felony underworld, remodeling himself right into a larger-than-life boss in a metropolis the place energy is every little thing. Ross directs from a screenplay by Jonathan Ames (You Were Never Really Here) with revisions by Ross.
Andrew Lazar (American Sniper) and Christina Weiss Lurie (Persuasion) produce. Black Bear will proceed promoting worldwide rights on the upcoming Cannes market. CAA Media Finance and Range Select co-rep home.
Lashner’s novel is a re-imagining of Franz Kafka’s traditional Metamorphosis wherein a person wakes as much as discover that he has been reworked right into a cockroach, so we hear there’s a enjoyable supernatural component to the film.
Sennott is at the moment main the writers room on season two of HBO hit I Love LA, which is predicted to shoot this yr. Her function in Kockroach isn’t anticipated to take her away from the sequence for lengthy. She additionally just lately co-created and executive-produced Big Mistakes alongside Dan Levy for Netflix, and is co-writing the script for The Heidi Fleiss Story, starring Aubrey Plaza. Movie roles embody Shiva Baby, Bodies Bodies Bodies, Saturday Night, Bottoms and A24’s current Sundance pic The Moment.
Sennott is represented by WME, OPE Partners, and Yorn, Levine.
