EXCLUSIVE: Ant-Man and the Wasp: Quantumania actress Kathryn Newton and Coyote vs. Acme star Lana Condor are headlining Amazon MGM Studios’ Satan’s Mouth, from director Jeff Wadlow.
The survival thriller is a co-production with Lionsgate and follows faculty mates who’re on a visit to get to Thailand and get trapped in an underwater cave system with a bull shark. Outdated tensions and energy struggles resurface as they battle to outlive.
Aja Gabel (Sunny; The Staircase; upcoming 5 Star Weekend) and Myung Joh Wesner (Star Wars: Skeleton Crew; Excessive Potential) wrote the script, which was featured on the 2019 Black Listing, with newest revisions by Jeff Wadlow.
Producers embrace Thunder Street Movies’ Basil Iwanyk and Erica Lee, and Wadlow. Thunder Street is natch, behind the John Wick films. Carsten Lorenz will government produce.
Chelsea Kujawa will oversee for Lionsgate. Helen Lee-Kim and Michael Meyer negotiated the deal on behalf of Lionsgate.
Newton is represented by WME, Leisure 360, and Hansen, Jacobson, Teller, Hoberman. Condor is represented by CAA, Untitled Leisure and Goodman, Genow, Schenkman, Smelkinson & Christopher. Wadlow is represented by UTA, Artists First, Empirical, and Hirsch Wallerstein Hayum Matlof and Fishman. Gabel is represented at UTA, Untitled, and Writers Home. Myung Joh Wesner is represented by Verve and Artists First.
Newton most lately starred reverse Dan Stevens in Common’s vampire thriller, Abigail. Additionally in 2024, Newton starred because the lead, titular position in Lisa Frankenstein for Focus Options. She additionally entered the Marvel Universe as Cassie Lang in Ant-Man and the Wasp: Quantumania, and headlined Amazon MGM Studios’ sci-fi romance, The Map of Tiny Excellent Issues. She additionally starred within the body-swap slasher Freaky reverse Vince Vaughn. Her earlier credit embrace blockbusters like Pokemon Detective Pikachu, Netflix’s fan-favorite sequence The Society, and Common’s Blockers, the top-grossing R-rated comedy of 2018. Up subsequent, she is going to star in Searchlight’s Prepared or Not 2, reverse Samara Weaving.
Condor can lately be seen starring in Valiant One, which was launched on Jan. 25, and can subsequent be seen within the romantic comedy Well worth the Wait for Tubi. Subsequent in movie, Condor will star within the action-thriller Ballerina Overdrive, produced by David Leitch. She additionally stars within the movie Coyote vs. Acme alongside Will Forte and John Cena which is predicted to launch worldwide in theaters someday subsequent 12 months. On TV, Condor lately appeared in a number of episodes of the critically acclaimed, Emmy and Peabody Award-winning sequence, Abbott Elementary. Condor turned a family identify in 2018 with the launch of Netflix’s characteristic movie To All of the Boys I’ve Liked Earlier than, primarily based on Jenny Han’s New York Occasions best-selling novel. Condor reprised her position in To All of the Boys: P.S. I Nonetheless Love You (2020) and, To All of the Boys: All the time and Eternally (2021). Further credit embrace Moonshot, Alita: Battle Angel, Boo, Bitch, Lethal Class, X-Males: Apocalypse, and Ruby Gillman: Teenage Kraken.
DGA award nominee Wadlow’s most up-to-date theatrical movie, Imaginary, marked his third collaboration with Jason Blum below a first-look deal that launched Wadlow’s personal manufacturing firm, Tower of Babble Leisure. Previous to that, he was the director and government producer of The Curse of Bridge Hole, starring Marlon Wayans (White Chicks), which debuted at No. 1 on Netflix. This adopted the 2 characteristic movies he had in theaters on the similar time: Bloodshot, the large display adaptation of the critically acclaimed comedian guide that Wadlow developed and wrote for Sony/Columbia Footage, starring Vin Diesel (The Quick and the Livid); and Fantasy Island, the re-imagining of the basic TV present that Wadlow directed, wrote, and produced for Blumhouse. His first collaboration with Blum, the unique theatrical characteristic, Fact or Dare (through Common Studios), grossed roughly $100M in theaters from a finances of simply $3.5M. Wadlow’s different credit embrace True Memoirs of an Worldwide Murderer, Kick Ass 2, By no means Again Down, Non-Cease, Bates Motel, The Pressure, Ryan Hansen Solves Crime on Tv, and the reboot of the basic 90’s TV present, Are You Afraid of the Darkish?
