Chris Rock will direct and star in Misty Inexperienced , which is described as a up to date story of extra and inequality in Hollywood.
Based mostly on Rourke’s unique screenplay, Misty Inexperienced tells the story of Misty, an undeniably gifted actress whose vices trigger her each try to revitalize her profession to fail. Her finest probability in years comes with Jordan (Rourke), a movie director who’s an ideal match for the function – if not for his or her contentious previous. Extra casting is underway.
The Rock and veteran government and former Fox head Peter Rice (Saturday Evening, 28 Years Later) will serve alongside James Lopez of MACRO Movie Studios and Tommy Oliver of Confluenceial Movies Produced. Government producers are Charles D. King of MACRO Movie Studios and Codie Elaine Oliver of Confluenceal Movies. Neon Worldwide will signify overseas rights and introduce the movie at AFM subsequent week, whereas CAA Media Finance will signify home rights.
Rourke was final seen on the large display screen in final 12 months’s “Rustin,” and his final directorial function was the critically acclaimed 2014 comedy “Prime 5,” through which he additionally starred. Most just lately, he was appointed director of Appian Street, the American remake of Leonardo DiCaprio’s Oscar-winning Danish drama One other Spherical. Rock additionally serves as government producer and narrates Everyone Nonetheless Hates Chris, a reimagined animated model of his beloved autobiographical household comedy “Everybody hates Chris.”
Rock representatives embody CAA, Untitled Leisure and Yorn, Levine, Barnes, Krintzman, Rubenstein, Kohner, Endlich, Goodell & Gellman.
Neon Worldwide’s present slate contains Michael Covino’s Splitsville, starring Dakota Johnson and Adria Arjona; Goode Perkins’s “Keeper”; Steven Soderbergh’s “Being” had its world premiere at Sundance; Jason Buxton’s “Sharp Nook” ), starring Ben Foster and Cobie Smulders; They Observe is the long-awaited sequel to the fashionable horror basic It Follows, directed by David Robert M. Directed by Chell, starring Maika Monroe.
