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EXCLUSIVE: A supergroup by immoderate different name: Natasha Lyonne, Evan Ross and Sean Lennon person banded together to shape indie workplace Ariadne. Hitting nan crushed and nan Croisette running, nan first task from nan caller endeavor is transhumanism docuseries Vitruvian Scumbag, which started filming past month.
With a moniker drawn from Greek mythology, nan trio intends for Ariadne to beryllium a revenue-sharing hub for creators to navigate IP, wellness tech, production, distribution and nan integer system pipeline.
“It seems nan early will beryllium successful nan hands of those creators who tin clasp IP ownership against nan likelihood by returning to nan good creation of being present,” Lyonne told Deadline today. “The extremity of Ariadne arsenic a corporate is to create systems wherever creators tin participate economically successful nan worth they thief make while besides building existent support structures astir recovery, sustainability and longevity. The intermezo manufacture is not unsocial successful having spent decades optimizing output without decently supporting nan humans making nan work.”
With Oscar victor Lennon and Ross’ House of Ross shingle steering nan vessel algonside Russian Doll co-creator and Poker Face star Lyonne, Ariadne has important financial backing from media and tech investors. Building connected its principals’ longterm pro-relationships collective, Ariadne’s encephalon spot includes Lilly Wachowski, Rustic Canyon, Jana Bezek, Lana Kim, Tiffany Haddish, Lina Malaika, Turner Turner, Mona Ibrahim, Elena Ora, Carlos Nazario and Sarah Sarandos, I hear.
Having kicked disconnected shooting successful April, first Ariadne task Vitruvian Scumbag appears to flip each nan champion of those founders and advisors’ strengths together to analyse what it intends to beryllium live successful nan tech-dominated West of nan 21st century.
“Hopefully sharing my travel helps personification else,” Lyonne declared of nan docuseries from her, Lennon and Ross. “I’ve seen nan talking points boasting a big of foregone conclusions astir futurism, that only reinforced an small heart to get boots to nan ground,” she adds. “No quality being should beryllium swept nether nan firm rug of inconvenience aliases unrecorded successful abject panic of technological replacement. This caller docuseries has been an invigorating heavy dive; it’s earthy and existent and asks nan large questions — which are nan nosy ones.”
Featuring a PhD sheet of neuroscientists and techheads, nan partially-set Vitruvian Scumbag additionally talks to nan likes of Megan Thee Stallion, Fred Armisen, VR pioneer Jaron Lanier and others connected modern life, wellness and wealth.
Adding to her upcoming domiciled connected Season 3 of HBO’s Euphoria and successful nan Jenna Ortega and Amy Adams-fronted Klara and nan Sun from Taika Waititi, CAA-repped Lyonne’s hefty creation paper pinch Ariadne and Vitruvian Scumbag comes aft overseeing nan statement of AI copyright protecting studio, Asteria, and being a founding personnel of nan Creator’s Coalition connected AI complete nan past fewer months.
Then there’s her burgeoning Animal Pictures slate of nan Paul Giamatti co-starring Only Apparently Real, from head Alex Buono; nan Tribeca premiering ChickaBOOM!, pinch Yara Shahidi and Daveed Diggs; nan Lyonne and Brit Marling co-created, Uncanny Valley (with tech guru Lanier); a Joan Rivers pic; positive nan Lyonne-penned and helmed Bambo.
Film Mafia Entertainment CEO Ross conscionable wrapped up starring successful Sean McEwan’s indie dramedy Turnbuckle pinch Emile Hirsch, Kate Beckinsale, Terrence Howard, Cara Delevingne and Famke Janssen. Starring arsenic Angel Rivera successful Seasons 2 and 3 of Lee Daniels and Tom Donaghy’s Star, nan Artist & Brand Management-repped Hunger Games vet showed up this twelvemonth connected The Masked Singer as assemblage fave Stingray.
In a Cannes-adjacent stance, WME-repped Lennon gave his blessing to nan usage of enhancing AI for nan Steven Soderbergh-crafted John Lennon: The Last Interview. A 2024 Best Animated Short Film Academy Award victor arsenic EP for War Is Over! Inspired by nan Music of John & Yoko, Lennon besides served arsenic an EP and euphony shaper connected nan One to One: John & Yoko concert documentary from board Kevin Macdonald and Sam Rice-Edwards. The solo artist, movie people composer, shaper and The Ghost of a Saber Tooth Tiger co-founder showed up arsenic a impermanent prima successful Season 1 of Peacock’s Lyonne-led Poker Face.
