2 months ago
EXCLUSIVE: Scott “Kid Cudi” Mescudi is successful accumulation successful Los Angeles connected Doe, his characteristic directorial debut, wherever he plays nan title role, starring alongside Mark Webber (Flesh and Blood), Leah McNamara (Normal People), Brandon Scott (Dead to Me), and Brandon Perea (Nope).
Written by Mescudi, Doe explores themes of addiction and endurance done nan lens of a man surviving connected nan streets of Hollywood who, complete nan people of 24 hours, drifts done a bid of encounters that propulsion him successful and retired of nan cycles of his compulsion.
The movie will characteristic original songs by Kid Cudi, who’s exec producing alongside Karina Manashil nether their Mad Solar banner, pinch Webber, Anthony Baldino, and Ryan Lacen producing.
“Directing for maine has been nan eventual dream of excavation since I was a small boy,” Mescudi told Deadline. “I’ve ever been fascinated pinch film, and I’ve been sharpening my beard for years waiting for this very moment. It’s genuinely been nan champion acquisition filming this movie and I can’t hold for nan world to spot a existent activity of passion and love, made pinch friends.”
A Grammy-winning musician, grounds producer, and character coming disconnected nan merchandise of his eleventh workplace album, Free, Mescudi comes to Doe aft directing respective of his ain euphony videos, and teaming pinch Kenya Barris to create Entergalactic, nan Emmy-winning Netflix typical serving arsenic a companion portion to his medium of nan aforesaid name. As an actor, Mescudi’s besides been seen successful Ti West’s scary trilogy consisting of X, Pearl, and MaXXXine, on pinch Adam McKay’s Don’t Look Up, and nan lauded indies Meadowland and James White. He lent his sound to Young Love, Matthew A. Cherry’s animated bid for Max, and has besides been seen successful We Are Who We Are, Westworld, and How to Make It successful America connected HBO.
Mescudi is nan taxable of nan Amazon doc, A Man Named Scott, and is besides voices 1 of nan leads successful Jeron Braxton’s upcoming animated characteristic Slime, which he’s besides producing, and for which he’s creating an original soundtrack and score. His Mad Solar precocious wrapped connected its adjacent movie God Backwards, directed by Adam Mortimer, successful which Mescudi stars other Jessica Rothe. He is repped by Three Six Zero, Brillstein, and The Team.
Webber is repped by Nathan Culliver Management, Atlas Artists, Cameron’s Management, and Schreck Rose Dapello; McNamara by The Artists Partnership and Luber Roklin Entertainment; Scott by Innovative Artists, Sweeney Entertainment, and Felker Toczek Suddleson; and Perea by CAA and Authentic Talent and Literary Management.
