.png)
1 month ago
13 ARTICLE AD
EXCLUSIVE: Boots Riley looks to have found his next project and landed quite the ensemble as sources tell Deadline he is partnering with Neon on his film I Like Boosters and set Keke Palmer, Naomi Ackie, LaKeith Stanfield and Demi Moore set to star. Additional casting is currently underway, with principal photography set to begin this fall.
Aaron Ryder and Andrew Swett are producing the film on behalf of Ryder Picture Company (RPC) with Savage Rose Films’ Allison Rose Carter and Jon Read. Mike Jackman and Gus Deardoff will serve as executive producers. Neon is financing the film with Waypoint Entertainment and acquired the worldwide rights. NEON will release the film theatrically in the US and handle international sales.
The film is about a ring of enterprising boosters (aka shoplifters, equal opportunists), who take aim at a cutthroat fashion maven. Additional plot details are currently being kept under wraps.
Riley is a multihyphenate working across film and music as a director, producer, screenwriter and best-known for his 2018 feature debut Sorry to Bother You, starring Stanfield and Tessa Thompson. Riley also created the Amazon original miniseries I’m a Virgo with Jharrel Jerome in the leading role.
Palmer most recently, she starred in Jordan Peele’s Nope, which earned her rave reviews including several accolades for the performance. She also appears in Alice from Krystin Ver Linden, Lorene Scafaria’s Hustlers alongside Constance Wu and Jennifer Lopez and appears opposite Jimmy Fallon in Password. Her book Master of Me will be released 11/19 from Flatiron.
Ackie made her breakthrough as an actor in William Oldroyd’s Lady Macbeth alongside Florence Pugh, earning her the British Independent Film Award for Most Promising Newcomer. Ackie has gone on to portray singer Whitney Houston in the biopic I Wanna Dance with Somebody, and recently starred in the leading role of Zoe Kravitz’s directorial debut, Blink Twice. She can next be seen in Bong Joon-ho’s Mickey 17 alongside Robert Pattinson.
Stanfield continues to bring unparalleled passion and reverence to each of his roles, most recently starring in Sony and Legendary’s The Book of Clarence, Disney’s The Haunted Mansion and starring in and executive producing the Apple TV+ series The Changeling. He also lent his voice to the documentary Ernest Cole: Lost and Found, which premiered at Cannes this year.
Moore’s long list of celebrated performances include St. Elmo’s Fire, G.I. Jane, A Few Good Men, and Ghost, which earned her a Golden Globe nomination. Moore most recently starred in the second season of Feud: Capote vs. The Swans, and can soon be seen in the upcoming Paramount+ drama Landman from Taylor Sheridan. She is currently receiving rave reviews for her role in the body horror feature, The Substance, in theaters now.
Neon has had quite the 2024 most recently released Osgood Perkins’ horror film Longlegs which just surpassed $75 million in the U.S. box office, becoming the highest grossing independent film of the year and Immaculate starring Sydney Sweeney. Upcoming releases include: Anora, the highly-anticipated new film from Sean Baker starring Mikey Madison, which won the coveted Palme d’Or in Cannes and The Seed of the Sacred Fig from director Mohammad Rasoulof.
RPC is prepping Michael Sarnoski’s The Death of Robin Hood, with Hugh Jackman and Jodie Comer, and Onslaught from Adam Wingard, under their first-look with Lyrical Media. The company recently premiered the sci-fi romance All of You with Brett Goldstein and Imogen Poots at this year’s Toronto International Film Festival.
Producing partners Allison Rose Carter and Jon Read are Savage Rose Films. Together, they have produced and co-produced over twenty five films, including The Daniels’ Academy Award-winning film Everything Everywhere All At Once, and recently inked a production and development partnership with Neon.
Riley is repped by WME and Cohen & Gardner. Palmer is repped by 3Arts and Hertz Lichtenstein Young & Polk, LLP. Ackie is repped by CAA, Hamilton Hodell, Range Media Partners, and Peikoff Mahan Law Office. Stanfield is repped by CAA, Stark Management, and Ginsburg Daniels Kallis. Moore is repped by CAA, Untitled, and Gang, Tyre, Ramer, Brown & Passman.
