‘Single White Feminine’ Remake With Ortega & Russell Will get Title, Author

EXCLUSIVE: After her movie Our bodies Our bodies Our bodies earned robust critiques, author Sarah DeLappe has been set to pen the script for 3000 Footage’ Single Feminine, with Jenna Ortega and Taylor Russell to star within the remake of the Nineties field workplace hit Single White Feminine.

Insiders additionally inform Deadline that Stacey Sher and Marisa Paiva will produce alongside Ortega and Russell.

The unique 1992 movie starred Bridget Fonda and Jennifer Jason Leigh and adopted a girl who begins to suspect unusual and sinister issues about her new roommate shifting into the house. The movie was not solely a shock hit however turned its leads into stars.

Moreover DeLappe becoming a member of as author, the producer additions are an indication the studio is contemplating the undertaking a excessive precedence. Sher is not any stranger to producing high-profile initiatives with previous credit together with Contagion and the Oscar-nominated Django Unchained. She most lately produced the A24 horror thriller Heretic. For Paiva, this marks her first main producing job after spending the previous twenty years as a revered studio exec.

DeLappe is an award-winning playwright and screenwriter greatest recognized for her work tackling younger feminine relationship dynamics. She wrote the screenplay for A24’s 2022 horror comedy Our bodies Our bodies Our bodies, which was each a important and industrial success. Her play The Wolves obtained the American Playwriting Basis’s inaugural Relentless Award and was a finalist for the 2017 Pulitzer Prize for Drama. She is repped by CAA, Leisure 360 and Schreck Rose.

Ortega performs Wednesday Addams within the Netflix collection Wednesday with director Tim Burton on the helm. The collection is at the moment in manufacturing on Season 3. Up subsequent, she has Taika Waititi’s Klara and the Solar which will likely be launched by Sony, in addition to Warner Bros’ The Nice Past directed by JJ Abrams which can hit theaters in November. She is repped by CAA and Jackoway Austen.

Russell will star subsequent in Hope, the anticipated Korean thriller from director Na Hong-jin. Russell lately made her stage debut in Jamie Lloyd’s revival of Lucy Prebble’s The Impact, which had runs in each London and New York. Her breakout position got here in Luca Guadagnino’s 2022 drama Bones and All, the place she starred reverse Timothée Chalamet. She is repped by UTA and Lichter, Grossman.