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EXCLUSIVE: Taylor Richardson (The Gilded Age) and Alex MacNicoll (The Society) are group to prima successful nan short film Change nan Prophecy from writer-director and Love List co-founder Lindsay Grossman.
The short is simply a tv proof-of-concept, based connected Grossman’s original short communicative of nan aforesaid name. It will beryllium produced by chap Love List co-founder Madison Jones and Geneva Willis.
Change nan Prophecy follows Richardson arsenic Sarah Rowe, a teenage woman surviving successful a nine wherever nan authorities matches you pinch a soulmate astatine nan property of eighteen. When Sarah finds retired she doesn’t person a soulmate and is frankincense relegated to a life arsenic a societal pariah, she hacks into nan matching database and steals personification else’s, successful truthful doing, separating nan astir celebrated boy successful school, Tony Emerson (MacNicoll), from nan woman he loves.
“We’re truthful thrilled to beryllium a portion of Change nan Prophecy,” Jones and Willis said successful a connection to Deadline. “Both of america person been fans of Lindsay’s penning for a while now, and erstwhile we publication nan early drafts of this short, we knew it was a task we needed to beryllium progressive in. We can’t hold for audiences to acquisition it.”
Added Grossman: “Change nan Prophecy showcases nan world of emotion and making love done nan lens of a speculative world wherever nan thought of choosing one’s destiny is some antiquated and forbidden. It’s a swoony, angsty emotion missive to dystopian YA lit and to nan teen dramas of nan precocious 90s/early aughts.”
Production is group for June of this year. Jamie Ember is serving arsenic nan project’s casting director.
Grossman is represented by Krista Sipp astatine Heroes & Villains. Richardson is represented by Paradigm while McNicoll is represented by Gersh, Joanne Horowitz Management and Stone Genow. Willis is represented by Christine Coggins astatine Heroes & Villains.
