EXCLUSIVE: Ryan Bergara (BuzzFeed Unsolved, Ghost Files) and Kevin Kreider (Bling Empire, The Traitors) will prima successful Jennifer Zhang‘s Cannes-bound characteristic Trüebadour.
Avatar Entertainment will present nan characteristic to world buyers, pinch early conversations connected nan sci-fi/horror opening up of nan Cannes Film Festival. For Bergara, nan pic marks a first lead characteristic lead role.
Per nan plotline, Trüebadour is group wrong a cutting-edge crippled studio, and “follows a squad testing a powerful experimental instrumentality tin of generating stories from nan subconscious of its personification – only to trigger a psychological unraveling arsenic those stories statesman exposing buried truths and blurring nan statement betwixt fabrication and reality.”
The pic is system arsenic an interconnected anthology story, wherever “multiple vivid communicative worlds tied to a azygous ensemble” travel together.
The movie is produced by Christopher Lee Bythewood, Jonathan Hsu and Zhang, who besides directs, successful relation pinch Asian American media outlet NextShark. Jamie Lee Curtis is among nan exec producers alongside Christopher Tremann, Debby Chang, Andrew Sakai, Linda Fang, Jaice DuMars, Michael Walsh, Scott Fitzpatrick, Michael Leibowitz, Stuart Giles, Jessica Sohl, Joseph Niciforo, Frank Mayor, Jon Lee Brody and Benny Luo.
Larry Robinson, President astatine Avatar Entertainment, said: “Trüebadour taps into a timely speech astir AI and authorship while delivering a high-concept genre experience. It stood retired to america for its clarity of imagination and its imaginable to link pinch audiences crossed aggregate markets.”