EXCLUSIVE: Large Seaside is creating and can produce a brand new musical comedy based mostly on an authentic thought from Nneka Onuorah (Megan Thee Stallion: In Her Phrases), who will direct from a script by Christina Nieves (Era).
At present untitled, the movie is about within the present-day South, watching as a younger girl’s actuality is turned inside out when a college challenge unveils a robust historical past of magic and sorcery in her household. Dealing with an historic enemy bent on her destruction, she should be taught to harness her personal newly found mystical powers to guard her household.
Large Seaside companions Michael B. Clark and Tim Foley defined that Onuorah approached them with “a imaginative and prescient for a brand new type of Halloween movie – one which mashes up the facility of id, the legacy of our ancestors, and the vitality of youth – all stirred with the identical pop-driven brilliance that she dropped at her work with Meg and Lizzo.” For her first narrative characteristic, they continued, “it made good sense to pair her with Christina, whose writing we knew and liked from her work on our present VIDA. She has the precise sensibility – huge concepts and biting wit – and background within the South – to enrich Nneka.”
Said Onuorah, “With Vacation movies being my favourite rising up, I’m elated to embark on this directing endeavor with the wonderful workforce at Large Seaside.”
An Emmy-winning filmmaker, producer, and activist of Nigerian-American descent, Onuorah is coming off the October launch of Megan Thee Stallion: In Her Phrases, her characteristic doc on Grammy-winning rapper Megan Thee Stallion for Prime Video. In movie, her different credit embody her GLAAD Award-nominated debut characteristic The Identical Distinction, a documentary about internalized homophobia throughout the U.S. Black lesbian neighborhood, and HBO’s The Legend of the Underground. TV credit embody Lizzo’s Watch Out for the Large Grrrls at Amazon, Viceland’s My Home, Netflix’s First and Final, Increased Floor’s The G Phrase, Lionsgate’s Black Equals Magnificence, and Reality Be Advised.
With a ardour for writing intersectional tales that characteristic folks of shade, Nieves most just lately wrote and developed an adaptation of the novel What Occurred to Ruthy Ramirez? for Paramount TV. She beforehand wrote on the collection Grease: Rise Of The Pink Girls for Paramount+ and Era for Max, along with creating her authentic comedy Decks with Area Journey Productions, and a restricted drama collection for Showtime referred to as Macho that was based mostly on the lifetime of boxer Hector “Macho” Camacho.
Identified for its work on such embellished movies as Little Miss Sunshine, A Lovely Day within the Neighborhood, and The Farewell, Large Seaside’s newest movie, Out of My Thoughts — an adaptation of the Sharon M. Draper novel directed by Amber Sealey — premiered at Sundance, launched on Disney+ over Thanksgiving, and was just lately nominated for 2 Critics Selection Awards. The movie follows Melody Brooks (Phoebe-Ray Taylor) as she navigates sixth grade as a nonverbal wheelchair consumer with cerebral palsy.
Upcoming releases for Large Seaside embody Changing into Led Zeppelin, which Sony Photos Classics releases in February, and Eva Victor’s Sorry, Child, which premieres at this yr’s Sundance Movie Competition. Just lately, they wrapped on Marc Turteltaub’s Borges and Me, an adaptation of the Jay Parini novel, starring Fionn Whitehead, Luis Gnecco, and Alan Cumming. Alongside Walden, Large Seaside is creating a characteristic adaptation of Ramona Ausubel’s bestseller The Final Animal, with Ry Russo-Younger on the helm. In TV, they’re behind the favored child’s present Park Gamers on YouTube and are at the moment creating a collection based mostly on Alexandra Tanner’s critically acclaimed novel, Fear, with Lesley Arfin showrunning.
Onuorah is repped by UTA, Ascend Artist Illustration, and Frankfurt Kurnit Klein & Selz; Nieves by Verve and Priya Verma at Yorn, Levine; and Large Seaside by Sloss Eckhouse Dasti Haynes LawCo.
