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EXCLUSIVE: Capture Entertainment is launching world income astatine Cannes connected acheronian drama Kaet Might Die, nan adjustment of Kaet McAnneny’s crab memoir Boobs Gone Rogue.
Filming has wrapped connected nan movie, which stars Golden Globe and Emmy victor Awkwafina (The Farewell), Grammy victor Anthony Ramos (In The Heights) and The Hangover prima Ken Jeong. The task reunites Crazy Rich Asians duo Awkwafina and Jeong arsenic begetter and daughter.
Mercedes Bryce Morgan, who astir precocious directed 2025 seductive scary Bone Lake, is helming nan book adapted by Angela Gulner and Yuri Baranovsky. The movie tells nan “true communicative of a female (Awkwafina) who has it all—until a crab test upends her perfectly ordered life, forcing her to trust connected joke and imagination to past a crumbling matrimony and overbearing family.”
Capture is co-representing home income pinch CAA. Pic is produced by Balcony 9 Productions (Dead Man’s Wire), Whitewater Films (Mean Creek), Invention Studios (Severance), Fever Dream Studios (Appendage) and Toric Films (Oscar Shaw). Producers are Joel David Moore, Katrina Kudlick, Rick Rosenthal, Nicholas Weinstock, Sarah Cornelius, Ojan Missaghi, David Wachs, and Chase Hinton.
“This astonishing book is based connected a existent story, but expressed done a lens that’s darkly funny, heightened, and wildly surreal,” said head Morgan today. “Because sometimes erstwhile things are dark, nan champion consequence is to find a measurement to still laughter done it all. Awkwafina navigates that tonal tightrope successful a measurement very fewer actors can, and building a formed astir her that could lucifer that power was incredibly important to me.”
“When Kaet first brought maine her memoir, I thought her fearless and hilarious return connected nan worst moments of her life would resonate pinch audiences everywhere,” added Moore. “But Mercedes and nan squad person brought that imagination to life successful ways beyond my wildest imagination led by Awkwafina successful a career-defining performance.”
Awkwafina and McAnneny service arsenic executive shaper alongside Rishi Bajaj, Vinny Smith, Daniel Taborga, Jarod Einsohn, Richard Lunam, Eric Gozlan, JB Yowell, Raymond Merrill, Lee Broda, Jeff Rice, Ryan Chismark, Chelsea Chismark, Amber Gibson, Mark Kline, Charlie Honea, and Mercedes Bryce Morgan.
Arlie Day and Mike Page service arsenic co-producers and casting directors. Additional executive producers see Michael Thomas, Lynette Gurule-Thomas, James Cullen Bressick, Andrew Asheroft, Ana Paczynska, Marsha Lunam, Sharon Azrieli, Natalie Kline, Carmelo Chimera, Syed Ali Saeed, Natasha Yi, Brando Eaton, Richie Wells, Michael Landon, Michael Bassick, Pierre Romain, Julie Solinger.
Casting was first rumored six weeks agone by TheInSneider.
Awkwafina is represented by CAA, Artists First and Schreck, Rose Dapello, Adams, Berlin & Dunham; Ramos is represented by CAA, Range Media Partners, and Paul Hastings; Jeong is repped by IAG, Untitled Entertainment, and lawyer Chad Christopher; Morgan is repped by UTA, Navigation Media Group, and Bloch Law. Gulner is repped by Fictional Entity and Yorn, Levine; Baranovsky is repped by Principal Entertainment LA and Yorn, Levine; McAnneny is repped by Gersh and Wizzo and Co.
