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EXCLUSIVE: Manuel Figueroa is group to make his characteristic directorial debut pinch Wild Ones, a coming-of-age play starring Annie Gonzalez (Relationship Goal) that counts salient workplace filmmakers Ruben Fleischer (Now You See Me: Now You Don’t) and Jon Watts (Spider-Man: No Way Home) among its producers.
Hailing from Camp Hobart and Midas Entertainment Group, Wild Ones is group successful nan mid-’90s Latinx Los Angeles world of precocious schoolhouse ditch parties and follows Eddie, a hard-partying elder successful nan blue-collar San Gabriel Valley who has his life upended successful nan weeks earlier graduation erstwhile he unexpectedly meets responsible “school girl” Darlene. As Eddie deals pinch nan problems successful his life and Darlene plans for her early beyond school, an improbable romance blossoms betwixt them.
Figueroa based nan movie connected his individual experiences and penned nan book pinch Jordan Heimer. In summation to Figueroa, Fleischer and Watts, producers see David Bernard and Darryll C. Scott (Evergreen Valley Prod), alongside Paul Coy Allen and Prince Baggett connected behalf of Midas.
A two-time Imagen Award nominee actress, Gonzalez tin presently beryllium seen starring alongside Kelly Rowland, Cliff “Method Man” Smith, and Robin Thede successful Relationship Goals, a romanticist drama from Amazon MGM Studios, which premiered connected Prime Video connected February 4. Otherwise champion known for nan films Flamin’ Hot and Jenni, she is repped by Innovative Artists, Luber Roklin, and Granderson Des Rochers.
Figueroa is simply a writer-director whose first book waste was Studio Gangsters, a aviator for AMC Networks. Subsequently, he developed Eastside for NBC, Three Joaquins for ABC, and The District and Clout pinch philharmonic creator Cuco and Eugenio Derbez’s 3Pas Studios. Figueroa has served arsenic an executive communicative editor and staffed connected bid including Stumptown (ABC), Defiance (Syfy), and nan Starz euphony drama, Step Up. He is presently besides penning an action movie group successful nan world of reggaeton for Exile Entertainment/HYBE records and is repped by Gersh, Heroes and Villains Entertainment, and Hirsch Wallerstein Hayum.
