Megan Park has lined up her follow-up to SXSW winner “The Fallout,” her directorial debut. The “Secret Lifetime of the American Teenager” actress will sort out one other coming-of-age story with “My Previous Ass.” A press launch introduced that she’s teaming up with Margot Robbie’s LuckyChap Leisure and Indian Paintbrush on the mission, which “will start casting quickly and is predicted to begin filming this summer time.”
Penned by Park, “The Fallout” tells the story of a teenage woman (Jenna Ortega, “You”) struggling to heal within the aftermath of a college capturing. Maddie Ziegler (“Music”) co-stars.
Requested why she was drawn to creating “The Falling,” Park informed us, “I sat down to jot down the movie after virtually a 12 months of wanting to speak concerning the topic of faculty shootings. I used to be upset and enraged and actually scared. I knew I didn’t need to make a film that might ever incite extra violence or be triggering to anybody who had been by means of this expertise — I felt an enormous accountability to do it justice however to additionally make it actually sincere,” she emphasised. “I additionally felt that if I used to be an adolescent proper now, I’d be terrified to go to highschool on daily basis. I needed to inform that facet of the story.”
The movie took dwelling the the grand jury award within the narrative characteristic competitors at SXSW 2021. It launched on HBO Max in January.
The plot of “My Previous Ass” hasn’t been revealed simply but. Park penned its script.
Robbie’s credit as a producer embrace “Promising Younger Girl,” “Birds of Prey,” and “I, Tonya.” She acquired an Oscar nom for starring within the latter, in addition to for her supporting function in “Bombshell.”
Supply: Women And Hollywood
