The actress has signed on to her next project, taking the titular lead in a forthcoming adaptation of Francesca Lia Block’s Weetzie Bat, Deadline reports.

Bring on the next indie! Another spooky indie! Kelly, repped by Thirty Three Management and CAA, recently wrapped on the biopic JT Leroy starring Kristen Stewart, Laura Dern and Diane Kruger.What can we say? Anya Taylor-Joy has zero time for your mainstream rom-coms. Pellerin, who will be seen next starring in Season 2 of Netflix’s hit series, The Oa, is repped by ICM and Grandview. Lane, soon to be seen in Desiree Akhavan’s coming-of-age Sundance film The Miseducation of Cameron Post and Neil Marshall’s upcoming Hellboy reboot, is repped by WME, the Long Run, and attorney André Des Rochers.

Robinson, who just wrapped on A24’s Native Son, is repped by UTA, Savage Agency, Management 360 and Felker Toczek.

Night Shyalaman’s Split and Cory Finley’s Thoroughbreds, next stars in Fox’s X-Men: The New Mutants and the next film in Shyalaman’s Unbreakable series, Glass. Repped by Intellectual Property Group, she has written scripts for Fox Searchlight and MTV and is currently developing other screenplays based on her work. Thor Bradwell, Justin Kelly, and Joshua Thurston are the producers on Weetzie Bat.īlock, who also penned the screenplay for the film, has authored more than 25 books spanning fiction, nonfiction, short stories and poetry. 'How To Blow Up A Pipeline' Review: Lukas Gage Among Superb Ensemble In Nail-Biting Eco-Terrorist Thriller But when their bliss is threatened by deaths, breakups and Max’s witchy and bitter ex-girlfriend Vixanne (Lane), Weetzie must take off her pink harlequin sunglasses in order to confront life’s darkness and find happiness in a city known as much for the glamour of fame and fortune as the darkness of cults and crime. She teams up with her Mohawked best friend Dirk (Pellerin) to find love, leading her to mysterious trenchcoat-wearing filmmaker Max (Robinson) and platinum-haired surfer Duck (Lonsdale). Weetzie (Taylor-Joy) is an ethereal pixie living in 1980s Los Angeles, where she grew up the child of an alcoholic starlet mother and a junkie screenwriter father. Love, Simon star Nick Robinson, American Honey standout Sasha Lane, Theodore Pellerin ( Boy Erased) and Keiynan Lonsdale ( Love, Simon, The Flash) also will star in the pic, which is described as a neon-lit fairy tale. EXCLUSIVE: Anya Taylor-Joy, who broke onto the scene with her lauded performance in A24’s The Witch, has been tapped as the title character in Weetzie Bat, the film adaptation of Francesca Lia Block’s cult favorite 1980s novel that Justin Kelly is directing.

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