EXCLUSIVE: Madelaine Petsch (The Strangers: Chapter 1) and Jacob Scipio (Dangerous Boys: Trip or Die) have been tapped to star in Upkeep Required, a brand new romantic comedy for Future Artists Leisure, Luber Roklin Leisure and Amazon MGM Studios, on which Petsch may even function an govt producer.
At present in manufacturing, the movie follows Charlie (Petsch), who’s pressured to rethink the viability of her beloved all-female mechanic store. Searching for connection on an internet automobile discussion board, little does she know her confidant, Beau (Scipio), is in actual fact her real-life enterprise rival.
Luber Roklin and Future Artists developed the script for Amazon, inserting first-time function director Lacey Uhlemeyer on the helm. Creator Erin Falconer (Tips on how to Break Up with Your Associates) wrote the script with Uhlemeyer, Roo Berry, and Luke Roberts. Future Artists Leisure’s Matt Williams will produce alongside Lena Roklin and Matt Luber of Luber Roklin Leisure, with Petsch as EP.
In a press release to Deadline, Future Artists’ Williams stated, “We’re thrilled to be working with Amazon MGM Studios on Upkeep Required. This mission blends the attraction and wit of a basic romance with the exhilarating world of automobile tradition. It’s nice to see Madelaine behind the wheel, driving the story alongside our improbable main man Jacob Scipio.”
Petsch is coming off of success with The Strangers: Chapter 1, the primary installment in a brand new horror trilogy from Lionsgate, which grossed over $47M worldwide. She additionally exec produced the pic, based mostly on Bryan Bertino’s standard 2008 horror pic The Strangers, and is in any other case greatest identified for starring on The CW’s Riverdale, which ran for seven seasons.
Most just lately reprising his function as Armando, the estranged son of Will Smith’s Det. Mike Lowrey, in Sony’s Dangerous Boys: Trip or Die, which grossed over $403 million worldwide, Scipio’s different function credit embody The Expendables 4 reverse Jason Statham, Sylvester Stallone and Curtis “50 Cent” Jackson, With out Regret reverse Michael B. Jordan, and The Outpost from Rod Lurie.
Petsch is represented by CAA, Mosaic, and Goodman, Genow, Schenkman; Scipio by CAA, Luber Roklin, and Johnson Shapiro Slewett & Kole; Uhlemeyer by Buchwald and Luber Roklin; and Falconer by Gersh and Luber Roklin.
