Jaime King and Natasha Lyonne are to star in and produce “Darlene,” a dark-comedy thriller from director Mary Lambert, greatest recognized for helming the 1989 adaptation of Stephen King’s “Pet Sematary.”
King is hooked up to play the title function of Darlene, a trailer-park influencer whose determined pursuit of viral fame spirals into homicide, abduction and a blood-soaked flight throughout the South. Lyonne is hooked up to play Annie.
Written by Chad Darnell, “Darlene” is described as a “high-octane, pitch-black Southern Gothic fever dream — where ‘Raising Arizona’ meets ‘Nightcrawler’ — satirizing generational poverty, terminal narcissism, and the modern hunger for digital immortality.” Manufacturing is about for late summer time in Louisiana.
The movie follows Darlene, a larger-than-life on-line character who has constructed her following round a being pregnant that isn’t actual. As her lie begins to unravel, her starvation for validation spirals into one thing far darker, drawing a devastated father right into a determined search and exposing a tradition extra obsessive about spectacle than consequence.
King will produce via Hooligan Dreamers Productions alongside associate Emma Comely, whereas Lyonne will produce via Animal Footage and Lambert produces via Vertical Movies.
Greatest recognized for her work in each style filmmaking and music movies, Lambert’s credit embody “Pet Sematary” and “Pet Sematary II,” plus “Siesta,” “The In Crowd,” “Urban Legends: Bloody Mary” and episodes of “The Blacklist,” “Arrow,” “Law & Order: SVU” and “Shining Vale.” She additionally directed a few of Madonna’s most iconic and controversial music movies, together with “Like a Virgin,” “Material Girl,” and “Like a Prayer.”
5-time Emmy nominee Lyonne is greatest recognized for “Orange is the New Black” and “Russian Doll,” which she co-created with Amy Poehler. Her award-winning Animal Footage banner is behind tasks together with “Poker Face,” “His Three Daughters,” “Loot,” and “The Second Best Hospital in the Galaxy.”
Hooligan Dreamers Prods., based by King, beforehand produced the horror-thriller “The Resurrection of Charles Manson,” directed by Remy Grillo and starring King and Frank Grillo, in addition to “The Room Below” and “Blood Behind Us. King produced and starred in the hit series “Black Summer” for Netflix.
