Sophie Thatcher Joins Jennifer Kent’s ‘The Girl Who Was Plugged In’ As Goodfellas Launches Sales – Cannes Market

EXCLUSIVE: Jennifer Kent (The Babadook, The Nightingale) has group sci-fi communicative The Girl Who Was Plugged In as her adjacent characteristic pinch Sophie Thatcher (Companion, Heretic, Yellowjackets) successful dual lead roles.
 
Details person been unveiled connected nan long-awaited 3rd characteristic from Kent arsenic Goodfellas gears up to motorboat world income astatine nan upcoming Cannes marketplace pinch CAA Media Finance and Range Select co-repping U.S. rights. 
 
Kent has besides written nan screenplay which is adapted from a 1973 subject fabrication novella by American writer James Tiptree, Jr (real sanction Alice B Sheldon).
 
Winner of nan Hugo Award for Best Novella successful 1974, nan surreal dystopian communicative revolves astir a female who loses her psyche to exertion in an effort to beryllium loved. 
 
Thatcher plays disfigured, suicidal young protagonist P Burke who is hired by a mega tech corp to virtually run a beautiful but brainless ‘flesh body’ called Delphi, grown successful a laboratory pinch nan sole intent of influencing nan masses and trading products. 
 
As Delphi’s prima rises, P Burke becomes enthralled by her and descends into a tech psychosis pinch disastrous consequences. 
 
Producers are Kent, Cody Greenwood for Rush Films, Brian Kavanaugh-Jones and Fred Berger for Range Media Partners, Brandon Millan and Sam Wasson for Felix Farmer Productions, and Hualien Media International. Terris Ko is an executive shaper alongside Dani Sommerhauser for Range. 
 
“I person ne'er felt a much urgent request to make a movie arsenic overmuch arsenic I person pinch The Girl Who Was Plugged In. Even though nan original communicative was published complete 50 years ago, its themes are now landing pinch a searing relevance, arsenic if it was conscionable written,” said Kent.
 
“I americium truthful excited to beryllium reteaming pinch Vincent Maraval and Goodfellas, who I worked pinch on Babadook,” she added, referring to her 2014 breakthrough Adelaide-set psychological horror. “I’m surrounded by a highly talented team, and we cannot hold to bring this applicable communicative to audiences.”
 
Range Media Partners’ Co-President of Film & Production, Brian Kavanaugh-Jones, commented: “We judge awesome films travel from nan correct imaginative alignment, and this task reflects that. Jennifer is simply a singular filmmaker, who brings a distinct, cinematic imagination that elevates nan material, while Goodfellas enactment arsenic existent curators – champions of awesome creation and nan artists down it. We consciousness fortunate to beryllium successful business pinch both.”
 
The authorities to nan underlying IP behind The Girl Who Was Plugged In were repped by Jon Levin astatine Sustainable Imagination and Christine Cohen astatine The Virginia Kidd Literary Agency and were negotiated by Matt Saver.
 
The movie is group to sprout successful mid-November 2026 successful Australia.  Kent is repped by CAA and Exile Entertainment; Thatcher is repped by CAA, Echo Lake Entertainment, imPRint, and Jackoway Austen.