EXCLUSIVE: It appears just like the current team-up on Saturday Night time Stay went very effectively as Keke Palmer and four-time Grammy winner SZA are set to star in an untitled buddy comedy film from TriStar Footage, with producer Isaa Rae producing. Rap Sh!t director Lawrence Lamont is about to direct, with the screenplay written by his Rap Sh!t teammate Syreeta Singleton, who served because the collection’ showrunner.
Plot particulars being saved beneath wraps, however Rae and Sara Diya Rastogi will produce via Rae’s banner Hoorae, joined by ColorCreative’s Deniese Davis, and Charles D. King, James Lopez and Poppy Hanks from Macro Movie Studios. Singleton is co-producing. Massive Boss’ Palmer and Sharon Palmer are govt producing. Macro Movie Studios is approaching board to co-finance and produce.
The venture got here collectively from the CoCre lab at Sony Footage. The lab was a earlier pact between ColorCreative and Columbia Footage to supply and incubate rising, numerous screenwriters to develop and write their first studio characteristic based mostly on unique concepts.
Palmer and SZA teamed for Saturday Night time Stay when Palmer hosted and SZA was the musical visitor. The film marks SZA’s appearing debut; the musician had been contemplating a lot of tasks, and the chance to reunite with Palmer was too good to go up.
Palmer rose to prominence via her breakout function in Akeelah and the Bee and has gone on to star in additional than 25 movies and 30 TV exhibits together with Jordan Peele’s Nope; Roadside Sights’ Alice, which she additionally govt produced; STX’s Hustlers, Fox’s Scream Queens; and Nickelodeon’s True Jackson, VP. She not too long ago launched her podcast Child, That is Keke Palmer for Wondery/Amazon, and based her personal digital community, KeyTV, for which she has written, produced and starred in varied unique content material together with her directorial debut, the quick movie Massive Boss, accompanied by an album of the identical title, launched in Could 2023.
Palmer earned a 2021 Emmy Award for her self-created collection Turnt Up With the Taylors, and not too long ago made historical past as the primary Black girl to win Excellent Host For A Recreation Present on the Emmys for her work internet hosting NBC’s reboot of Password.
SZA is an Oscar nominee and four-time Grammy winner whose main label debut album Ctrl landed at No. 1 on Billboard’s R&B Albums chart, No. 2 on the R&B/Hip Hop Albums chart and No. 3 on the Billboard 200 chart. RIAA-certified three-time platinum, the album obtained 5 Grammy nominations. In 2018 she collaborated with Kendrick Lamar within the tune “All of the Stars” for Black Panther. The tune obtained 4 nominations on the 61st Grammys together with Document of the 12 months and Music of the 12 months, together with Golden Globe and Oscar nominations for Authentic Music.
Lamont has directed music movies for among the trade’s greatest artists together with J. Cole, Massive Sean, Kanye West, O’Shea Jackson Jr., Jhene Aiko, Nas and Snoop Dogg. His music video for Massive Sean’s “IDFWU” gained BET’s Video of the 12 months and most not too long ago MTV’s Greatest Hip Hop video.
Palmer is repped by 3 Arts Leisure, Hertz Lichtenstein, Younger & Polk and LUNA PR. SZA is repped by WME for theatrical and High Dawg Leisure. Lamont is repped by CoCre and Johnson Shapiro Slewett & Kole. Singleton is repped by CoCre and UTA.
