EXCLUSIVE: Oscar successful Juno scribe Diablo Cody is producing the function directorial debut of Meredith Alloway, Forbidden Fruits.
Alloway is co-adapting the function with playwright Lily Hougton off the latter’s play Of the Girls Got here the Starting of Sin, and By Her We All Die.
The initiatives follows Free Eden worker Apple, who secretly runs a witchy femme cult within the basement of the mall retailer after hours – with fellow fruits Cherry and Fig. However when new rent Pumpkin challenges their “woman boss” methods, the ladies are pressured to face their very own poisons or succumb to a bloody destiny.
Cody, Mason Novick, Trent Hubbard and Mary Anne Waterhouse are set to supply the function, by way of Novick’s MXN Leisure banner.
EPs are Charlie Traisman and Katherine Romans from Madhouse Movies alongside Casey Durant and Rachel Douglas from Vary. WME Unbiased can be dealing with gross sales for the mission.
“Forbidden Fruits grabbed me by the neck the very first time I learn it,” Cody tells Deadline. “It’s one of many craziest, most inventive, fantastically bonkers initiatives I’ve ever labored on. I really feel so fortunate to be collaborating with Meredith and Lily, who’ve develop into heroes of mine in brief order.”
Alloway is a New York-based filmmaker whose quick movie Deep Tissue screened internationally after premiering at SXSW. She partnered with Hulu, Sundance Institute, and twentieth Century Digital Studios on her subsequent quick movies Journey and First Date. Alloway has numerous function movies that she wrote and can direct in improvement, together with Excessive Priestess with David S. Goyer’s firm Phantom 4 and Physique Rely with MXN and R.Ok. Movies (Anybody However You). As a journalist, Meredith has written interviews and have items for publications akin to Vainness Honest, Playboy, Filmmaker Journal, Nylon, and Indiewire.
Houghton is an award-winning playwright born and raised in Manhattan. She has a number of TV sequence in improvement with Elliot Web page’s Web page Boy Productions, Norman Reedus’ Huge Bald Head Movies, Blake Full of life’s B For Effort and a number of initiatives with Gia Coppola connected to direct. On the function facet, Houghton not too long ago tailored the novel Aggressive Grieving by Nora Zelevansky for Belletrist and Rebelle Media. Her performs have been produced/developed at MCC Theater Firm, Atlantic Theater Firm, The Flea Theater, EST/Youngblood, NYU, Seattle Repertory Theater, Regular Ave, Yale, Up to date American Theater Pageant and Jermyn Road Theatre in London. She has received the 2023 American Playwriting Basis Relentless Award, two Sloan Basis Science Grants, the Elizabeth George Grant and was the recipient of the 2019 Launch Fee from the Atlantic Theater Firm. She is a member of the Obie successful Youngblood at EST.
Alloway is repped by WME, Linden Leisure & Jackoway Austen. Houghton is repped by UTA, Linden Leisure & Jackoway Austen. Cody is repped by WME, MXN Leisure and McKuin Frankel.
