‘Bottoms’: Rachel Sennott, Ayo Edebiri, Marshawn Lynch & More To Star In High School Sex Comedy From Orion & Brownstone; ‘Shiva Baby’s Emma Seligman Directing
deadline.comRachel Sennott (Shiva Baby), Ayo Edebiri (Big Mouth), Marshawn Lynch (Murderville), Ruby Cruz (Castle Rock), Havana Rose Liu (No Exit), Kaia Gerber (American Horror Story), Nicholas Galitzine (The Craft), Miles Fowler (Winning Time), Dagmara Dominczyk (Succession) and Punkie Johnson (Love Life) have signed on to star in Bottoms, an upcoming high school sex comedy that Emma Seligman (Shiva Baby) is directing for MGM’s Orion Pictures and Brownstone Productions.The film written by Seligman and Sennott follows two unpopular queer girls in their senior year who start a fight club to try to impress and hook up with cheerleaders.
Elizabeth Banks, Max Handelman and Alison Small will produce for Brownstone Productions, with production kicking off this spring.Bottoms joins a slate of films at Orion that includes Billy Porter’s directorial debut, Anything’s Possible, set for release this summer; Women Talking—with Plan B Entertainment, and starring Rooney Mara, Claire Foy, Jessie Buckley, Judith Ivey, Sheila McCarthy, Michelle McLeod, Ben Whishaw and Frances McDormand—which is expected to debut later this year; and Chinonye Chukwu’s Till, starring Danielle Deadwyler, Whoopi Goldberg and Jalyn Hall, also expected to release later in 2022.Seligman is a DGA and Gotham Award-nominated filmmaker whose acclaimed debut feature Shiva Baby this year won Film Independent’s John Cassavetes Award, having premiered as an official selection of both SXSW and TIFF in 2020.
She is currently developing a TV series for HBO, which will be produced by Adam McKay though his company Hyperobject Industries.Sennott starred in Seligman’s critically acclaimed indie Shiva Baby, and will next be seen in the anticipated A24 slasher Bodies Bodies Bodies, as well
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