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Dylan O’Brien (Send Help) is group to prima successful James Morosini’s seductive thriller Bulls, alongside Lewis Pullman (Thunderbolts*) and Kaia Gerber (Bottoms), we tin reveal.
Yvette Zhuang and Zach Glueck, co-CEOs of Manifest Pictures, are launching nan task up of nan Cannes market.
Written and directed by Morosini, a SXSW victor for I Love My Dad, nan movie is being financed and produced by QC Entertainment (Get Out). Roth/Kirschenbaum Films (Fast X), producers of Sony Pictures’ container agency deed Anyone But You, is producing.
Manifest Pictures is handling world rights. CAA Media Finance, WME Independent and QC Entertainment will co-rep home sales. Shooting is group to get underway earlier nan extremity of nan year.
Bulls will travel Danny (O’Brien), “a man who has spent 30 years apologizing for existing. With his narration cracking, he books a last-ditch travel to a hedonistic land resort, hoping to travel backmost arsenic personification his woman tin yet judge in. But his lonely flight detonates erstwhile a hookup pinch Ava, a joined female (Gerber), puts him connected a collision people pinch her alpha antheral hubby Marco (Pullman).
“As Danny is drawn deeper into Ava’s vulnerable and intoxicating world of sex, power, and psychological games he quickly realizes getting caught by Marco is only nan beginning.”
Morosini, who was astir precocious enlisted to constitute and EP a forthcoming adjustment of his Black List scary book Mommy’s Home for Lionsgate. Universal besides picked up Morosini’s elevated drama spec Inner Child, pinch nan task being adapted for nan Lego universe. As an actor, he astir precocious starred successful It’s What’s Inside, which premiered astatine nan 2024 Sundance Film Festival and sold to Netflix successful a $17M deall.
QC Entertainment partners Sean McKittrick, Raymond Mansfield and Edward H. Hamm Jr. said: “We’ve been looking for nan correct opportunity to collaborate pinch James for immoderate time. He brings a bold, fearless sensibility to characteristic and tension, and Bulls instantly stood retired arsenic a task pinch some beardown commercialized imaginable and a singular imaginative voice. We’re excited to finance and nutrient nan movie and thief bring James’ imagination to audiences.”
“James Morosini has crafted a provocative and unpredictable thriller that demands your attention. It demanded ours from page one! Elevated, yet crowd pleasing – and pinch this stellar formed – it’s a movie we cognize will instrumentality pinch audiences and create conversation,” commented Zack Roth of Roth/Kirschenbaum.
Morosini added: “I wrote Bulls because it’s nan type of movie I would cancel my plans to spell spot successful cinemas. It’s mischievous, twisty, turn-y, and astir of each it’s sexy.”
“James has crafted a loud, transgressive seductive thriller that speaks straight to today’s theatrical audience—one that’s embraced provocative hits from Wuthering Heights and The White Lotus to Saltburn and The Housemaid,” noted Zhuang and Glueck of Manifest Pictures. “With his sharp, unique sound and an unthinkable next-gen cast, Bulls will person audiences gasping, laughing, screaming and talking agelong aft nan credits roll.”
O’Brien is repped by WME, Principal Entertainment LA, and Lichter, Grossman; Gerber is repped by CAA, Entertainment 360, and Sloane, Offer; Pullman is repped by CAA and Anonymous Content. Morosini is repped by CAA, Range Media Partners, and Goodman, Genow.
