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EXCLUSIVE: Daniel Kaluuya is reteaming pinch his Judas and nan Black Messiah director Shaka King for nan caller Amazon MGM Studios and HyperObject Industries’ characteristic The Parlay. One Battle After Another Golden Globe victor and Oscar nominated Supporting Actress Teyana Taylor is circling to star.
We perceive that Judas and nan Black Messiah Oscar winning Best Supporting Actor victor Kaluuya is bringing King and Taylor together for this film. Judas and nan Black Messiah earned Oscar noms, winning, successful summation to nan H.E.R. original opus “Fight for You”.
The Parlay will beryllium based connected an original spec by Zack Akers and Skip Bronkie. Akers, Bronkie, and King are revising. While nan crippled is being kept concealed astatine this time, we understand nan task is being billed arsenic an action crime.
Hyperobject Industries’ Adam McKay and Todd Schulman; I’d Watch That’s Shaka King and Brandon Harris; and 59% Productions’ Kaluuya will produce.
Kaluuya will adjacent beryllium seen in the Chris Rock-directed Misty Green and starring successful A24 film Hotel Hotel Hotel Hotel, besides produced by Hyperobject. Kaluuya is co-writing a Spider-Punk movie for Sony Pictures Animation after voicing nan scene-stealing Spider-Punk successful nan container agency sensation Spider-Man: Across nan Spider-Verse. Kaluuya is producing a live-action Barney movie nether his 59% Productions banner, successful business pinch Mattel and A24. Kaluuya changeable to world acclaim for his Oscar, BAFTA and Golden Globe-nominated starring move successful Jordan Peele’s Oscar-winning smash hit Get Out. Other notable credits see Jordan Peele’s Nope, Steve McQueen’s Widows, Denis Villeneuve’s Sicario, Charlie Brooker’s Black Mirror, Lena Waithe’s Queen & Slim and Ryan Coogler’s Black Panther. Kaluuya is represented by WME, B-Side Management and Johnson Shapiro Slewett Kole.
Taylor is simply a Grammy nominated signaling artist, successful summation to being a choreographer, filmmaker, and actress. She collapsed retired successful 2023’s A Thousand and One. Her caller on-screen activity includes The Rip (Netflix), All’s Fair (Hulu), Straw (Netflix), Scary Movie 6 (Paramount) and nan upcoming Kevin Hart film 72 Hours (Netflix). She will make her characteristic directorial debut pinch Paramount’s Get Lite, owed retired successful theaters successful 2027. Taylor is represented by WME, and Taylormade Management.
Akers and Bronkie are known for their fictional podcast Limetown, which they subsequently adapted arsenic a TV bid of nan aforesaid name, starring Jessica Biel and Stanley Tucci. They besides wrote nan movie Him, which primitively sold competitively arsenic a spec, and was released theatrically by Universal. They besides penned nan original sci-fi thriller Control, which is now successful station for Studiocanal. James McAvoy stars successful nan film, which was directed by Robert Schwentke. Akers and Bronkie are represented by WME and Ziffren Brittenham.
King is repped by WME and Goodman, Genow, Schenkman, Smelkinson & Christopher.
HyperObject Industries is down specified pics arsenic Netflix’s Don’t Look Up, Searchlight’s The Menu, and Netflix’s deed thriller Thrash from writer head Tommy Wirkola, starring Phoebe Dynevor.
The HyperObject Industries squad includes McKay’s long-time shaper Kevin Messick and producers Schulman, Betsy Koch and Maeve Cullinane. In summation they person Fresh starring Daisy Edgar-Jones and Sebastian Stan from head Mimi Cave pinch a screenplay from Lauryn Kahn which was released connected Hulu. Messick and McKay are presently successful accumulation pinch nan John Lee Hancock Netflix courtroom play surrounding U.S. chemic institution Monsanto, starring Jonathan Bailey, Laura Dern, LaKeith Stanfield, Julia McDermott, David Duchovny, Melonie Diaz, Bilal Hasna and Greg Kinnear. Meanwhile, Koch is successful accumulation successful Panos Cosmatos’ Flesh of nan Gods, starring Kristen Stewart and Wagner Moura.
