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EXCLUSIVE: Gotham Award nominee Sebiye Behtiyar (Preparation for nan Next Life) and Emmy nominee Sonja O’Hara (Snare) are to prima successful writer-director Zachary Allard’s scary characteristic debut, The Scorpion.
The Scorpion follows Kit (O’Hara), “a struggling young female whose dream of launching her ain clothing statement has stalled. Desperate for money, she accepts a mysterious occupation astatine a cutting-edge cosmetics laboratory that claims to person eliminated animal testing successful favour of consenting quality participants. As Kit becomes progressively entangled successful nan lab’s bizarre experiments — involving perfumes, chemicals, and invasive procedures — her life originates to improve, moreover arsenic disturbing beingness and psychological changes statesman to surface.” Above is simply a publicity still of O’Hara successful prep for nan film.
Behtiyar co-leads arsenic Lizzie, a “winsome caller enlistee astatine nan experimental cosmetics session who forms a heavy enslaved pinch different trial taxable arsenic nan women strengthen progressively disturbing beingness and psychological transformations.”
Allard serves arsenic a improvement executive astatine Exile Entertainment, nan guidance and accumulation institution led by Gary Ungar, rep to Guillermo Del Toro, Jennifer Kent, Mathieu Kassovitz and more. His scripts person antecedently been optioned by companies Caviar and Endless Media.
The Scorpion is produced by Raechel Zarzynski (Tender), Kathy Sue Holtorf (300 Feet Tall), Garrett Recker, and Greg Elam, pinch Independent Spirit Award–winning shaper Corey Moosa (Margin Call) besides executive-producing.
The feature, which is owed to changeable successful LA later this year, is being lensed by Davon Slininger, a longtime camera usability known for his collaborations pinch David O. Russell and Damien Chazelle.
Behtiyar earned a Gotham Award information for Breakthrough Performance successful Preparation for nan Next Life. O’Hara precocious wrapped connected assemblage scary movie Snare, successful which she stars other Wicked breakout Marissa Bode and Mission: Impossible character Greg Tarzan Davis.
Behtiyar is represented by UTA and Authentic; O’Hara by Anonymous Content, Verve, Park Artists, and Fox Rothschild; and Allard by Folio Literary Management.
