
EXCLUSIVE: Michael Patrick Jann has been tapped to direct the Western horror movie Organ Path for Paramount Footage, with Olivia Applegate (Love and Dying), Clé Bennett (The Guy within the Top Fort), Zoé De Grand Maison (Riverdale), Nicholas Logan (Dopesick), Sam Trammell (True Blood) and Jessica Frances Dukes (Ozark) signing directly to big name.
The movie written via Meg Turner unearths a tender Abigale Archer friendless and on my own in a brutal Montana iciness throughout the 1870s—preventing for survival and to retrieve her one earthly ownership, her circle of relatives’s horse, from a gang of bloodthirsty bandits. Jann will produce along David Codron.
Jann is a author, director and manufacturer who started his occupation as a member of the comic strip comedy staff The State, then co-creating the MTV display of the similar identify. He served as an govt manufacturer and director for the collection Reno 911!, additionally exec generating Flight of the Conchords and Little Britain for HBO, and directing episodes of Wayne for Amazon and Dawn for Netflix. Jann is very best recognized at the movie facet for guiding the cult-classic good looks mockumentary Drop Lifeless Beautiful.
Applegate will subsequent be observed within the HBO Max miniseries Love and Dying. She’s in the past seemed in collection together with Pushed, Grimy John and Euphoria, in addition to movies together with The Beta Check, Music to Music and Krisha. Bennett has just lately seemed in collection together with The Falcon and the Iciness Soldier and The Guy within the Top Fort, and has additionally been observed at the TV facet in The Tick, Non-public Eyes, Place of origin and Heroes Reborn. Notable movie credit come with Fortunate Day, Jigsaw and Borealis.
Maison’s credit come with Riverdale, Wayne and Orphan Black. Logan just lately seemed on Hulu’s Dopesick and has additionally featured in collection together with Creepshow, Watchmen, Queen of the South and Hap and Leonard, in addition to such movies as I Care a Lot and Fast Circle of relatives.
Trammell’s movie credit come with Nancy Drew and the Hidden Staircase, Imperium, The Fault in Our Stars and Extraterrestrial beings vs. Predator: Requiem. His TV credit come with Era, The Order, Reckoning, Place of origin, This Is Us and True Blood. Dukes performs Particular Agent Maya Miller on Netflix’s Ozark and has additionally featured in collection together with Jessica Jones and New Amsterdam.
Jann is represented via CAA and lawyer Gretchen Rush at Hansen, Jacobson, Teller; Applegate via AFA Top Ability Media and World Artists Company; Bennett via Hyperion Ability Company and Mosaic; Maison via Leading edge Artists and Domesticate Leisure; Logan via Original Ability and Literary Control; Trammell via Leading edge Artists, Luber Roklin Leisure and lawyer Mark S. Temple; and Dukes via Leading edge Artists.