EXCLUSIVE: Jamie Eliezer Karas (Acapulco) has come aboard to direct Suburban Kings, a coming-of-age movie penned by Peter Hoare (Kevin Can Wait), to be produced by Chris Mangano (Mangano Motion pictures & Media), Blink-182’s Tom DeLonge (To The Stars Media), and Stan Spry (Evoke Leisure).
The movie follows Wolfgang Binder, a rebellious, skateboarding-obsessed 13-year-old, who’s hellbent on spending the summer time of ’99 cheering up his finest good friend after the tragic, sudden dying of his mom.
“This film is an ode to my youth, to superb lifelong friendships that had been shaped via skateboarding within the suburbs, to an general tradition that helped form a long-lasting DIY spirit that I cherish,” stated Hoare. “And to have the superior Tom DeLonge behind this, somebody who created a variety of the music that served because the literal soundtrack to these days… I couldn’t probably be happier to make this one. In case you hold your eyes open, there are indelible life classes to be realized all over the place. If at first you don’t succeed – in skateboarding, as in life – rise up, brush your self off, work even tougher… land that shit.”
Identified for guiding and exec producing Apple’s Acapulco, Karas’ different TV directing credit embody Abbott Elementary, Parks and Recreation, Brooklyn 9-9, Superstore, Ghosts, and Workaholics. His characteristic work contains the SXSW tennis comedy Break Level and Netflix’s The Major Occasion. He’s additionally a go-to director for Netflix’s stand-up comedy, having helmed specials with Invoice Burr, Ali Wong, and Tom Segura. He’s repped by Verve and The Nacelle Firm.
Hoare is understood for writing the Tribeca dramedy Standing Up, Falling Down, starring Billy Crystal and Ben Schwartz, Karas’ The Major Occasion and thd comedy Killing Hasselhoff, in addition to for his work on CBS’s Kevin Can Wait. Different upcoming initiatives embody Scholar Driver at Netflix and Household Jewels, a vacation comedy starring Goldie Hawn, Diane Keaton, and Bette Midler, for New Republic Photos. He’s repped by Verve, Kailey Marsh at 5 Line, and Goodman, Genow, Schenkman.
Mangano’s current credit embody What We Do Subsequent, Don’t Inform a Soul, and Standing Up, Falling Down. He additionally exec produced the Sam Raimi horror collection 50 States of Fright, in addition to The Polka King starring Jack Black and Match starring Patrick Stewart.
Credit for DeLonge, frontman of rock band blink-182 and founding father of the CAA-repped To The Stars, embody Monsters of California, Poet Anderson: The Dream Walker, and the hit docuseries Unidentified. At the moment, he’s producing animated collection Breaking Bear for Tubi.
Spry’s manufacturing and administration firm Evoke Leisure can be behind Breaking Bear and reps the likes of Harland Williams and Danielle Fishel.
