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EXCLUSIVE: Live Nation Studios has commenced nan SoCal accumulation of Youth Juice, a caller horror-comedy starring Gideon Adlon (Euphoria), Luna Blaise (Jurassic World), Simon Rex (Red Rocket) and Jay Hernandez (Magnum P.I.).
Written by Danya Jimenez and Hannah McMechan, 2 of nan scribes down Netflix’s Academy Award winner KPop Demon Hunters, who present make their live-action characteristic debut, Youth Juice is billed arsenic a creepy satire astir aging and really acold group will spell to extremity getting older.
“We wrote this during nan pandemic, erstwhile we were some approaching 25, wasting distant our younker indoors, going from miss to ma’am,” nan scribes told Deadline. “At nan time, it felt for illustration a scary movie.”
The movie is directed by Veronica Rodriguez (Disney’s upcoming Camp Rock 3) and follows Luna (Blaise) and Beni (Adlon), 2 champion friends terrified of increasing aged who recreation to Palm Springs to reclaim their vitality.
Rodriguez said she’s making “something sexy, funny, and scary” — “a movie that’s some entertaining and unsettling, astir nan unusual things group do to consciousness young.”
Rodriguez, Jimenez and McMechan are producing alongside Jorge Garcia Castro for Altered.LA; Pete Corona for Ruta Media; Will Russell-Shapiro; Stella Bulochnikov, Robin Rapino and Pat Lambert for Live Nation Studios; and Chris Abernathy and Eric B. Fleischman for The Wonder Company. Ryan Kroft and Michael Rapino are serving arsenic exec producers.
Ryan Kroft, Live Nation Studios’ Head of Film & Television, told us, “We’re thrilled to beryllium moving pinch creatives who elevate popular culture. We are truthful impressed pinch Veronica’s provocative imagination and stylistically disruptive choices arsenic good arsenic Danya and Hannah’s monumental activity turning KPop Demon Hunters into a world phenomenon. Youth Juice is wildly entertaining, crisp successful its constituent of position and wholly original. It’s precisely nan benignant of artists-driven task we’re excited to champion arsenic we proceed to turn Live Nation Studios.”
Recently seen successful nan 3rd and last play of HBO’s Euphoria, Adlon has besides put successful turns connected shows like Ghosts and The Thing About Pam. She is repped by UTA, Anonymous Content, and McKuin Frankel Whitehead.
Blaise is champion known for starring in Jurassic World: Rebirth, nan supernatural drama Manifest for NBC/Netflix, and Fresh Off nan Boat. She is repped by CAA, Brillstein Entertainment Partners, and Schreck Rose Dapello.
Rex stars alongside Tim Blake Nelson, Vera Farmiga and Jim Parsons successful nan Heaven’s Gate thriller The Leader, which conscionable premiered to captious acclaim astatine Tribeca. Other caller movie credits include Operation Taco Gary’s and Easy’s Waltz. He is repped by Buchwald and Range Media Partners.
Coming disconnected of 5 seasons of Magnum P.I., Hernandez will beryllium seen coming up successful New Line’s The Revenge of La Llorona. He is repped by CAA, Alchemy Entertainment, and Fuller Law.
Known for activity connected nan euphony docs Gaga: Five Foot Two and Moonage Daydream, arsenic good arsenic nan Academy Award-winning A Star Is Born, Live Nation Studios’ upcoming scripted slate includes Stages; Nimrods, inspired by nan early years of Green Day; and nan show comedy Rolling Loud starring Owen Wilson and Matt Rife.
Rodriguez is repped by Writ Large. Jimenez and McMechan are pinch WME, Mosaic, and Yorn, Levine, Barnes.
