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EXCLUSIVE: Sofia Wylie (Netflix’s upcoming The Body) and Madison Thompson (Euphoria) person wrapped lead roles successful The Lottery, a comedic thriller directed by Leo Milano.
Others successful nan formed see Genevieve Hannelius (Along for nan Ride), Noa Fisher (Bunny), Trew Mullen (The Moment), Austin North (Outer Banks), Esther Povitsky (Dollface), who besides produced, and Belmont Cameli (Off Campus).
The Lottery follows 5 estranged puerility friends who reunite for what’s meant to beryllium 1 past carefree play astatine their distant skis cabin. When they observe they’re holding a winning $300 cardinal lottery ticket, their lives alteration overnight. But arsenic a sadistic blizzard traps them inside, long-buried secrets, aged rivalries, and competing ambitions ignite, turning ceremony into a vulnerable crippled of greed and deception.
What originates arsenic booze-fueled nostalgia quickly spirals into a lethal crippled of manipulation, betrayal, and survival. When nan charming and mysterious upland patrolman Ranger Rick (North) unexpectedly arrives, his beingness raises much questions than answers, fracturing nan group’s already vulnerable alliances and transforming nan conflict for a luck into a conflict for their lives.
“The Lottery explores really quickly relationship tin unravel erstwhile life-changing money ignites greed,” Milano noted. “The cast’s bonzer chemistry grounds nan communicative successful thing instantly relatable to anyone who’s ever taken a play travel pinch friends, wherever drunken nostalgia, chaos, and buried tensions simmer conscionable beneath nan surface. Which raises a elemental question: would you divided millions of dollars pinch personification you hate?”
The Lottery marks Milano’s sophomore characteristic connected nan heels of nan Rudy Pankow dramedy The Crusades, whose writers Jack Hussar and Shaun Early reunite pinch him here. Brent Madison is producing nether his and Milano’s Bad Little Thing banner, alongside Povitsky, Sharon Wisnia (Murder successful a Small Town), and Morris Ruskin (Glengarry Glen Ross) of MoJo Global Arts, pinch Ruskin and Wisnia repping nan task for sales. Alex Pissios and Joseph Mellicker are exec producers.
Wylie is repped by UTA and Jackoway Austen Tyerman; Thompson by Luber Roklin, CESD, and Lichter Grossman; Hannelius by Atlas Artists and Buchwald; Fisher by Buchwald and Canopy Media Partners; Mullen by Buchwald, Luber Roklin, and Bloch Law; North by Buchwald, Luber Roklin, and Myman Greenspan Fox; and Milano by MoJo Global Arts.
