Studiocanal and Imperative Entertainment are teaming up on psychological thriller Cat Person, based on Kristen Roupenian’s well-received short story published in The New Yorker in 2017.Directed by Susanna Fogel (The Flight Attendant) and written by Michelle Ashford (Masters of Sex), the package will star Nicholas Braun (Succession) and Emilia Jones (Locke & Key).The story follows the brief relationship of Margot, a twenty-year-old sophomore college student, and Robert, an older man who is a regular at the movie theater where Margot works.The short story was the year’s most downloaded fiction published in The New Yorker.The project, which on paper has a hint of Promising Young Woman about it, will be produced by Imperative Entertainment’s
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