EXCLUSIVE: Based mostly on an unique thought by producer Ryan Kavanaugh, Talent Home is the primary of a franchise and is slated to begin principal manufacturing in June 2022 with an anticipated early 2023 launch date.
It’s financed and managed by Proxima Studios and written and directed by Josh Stolberg, co-writer of horror movies equivalent to Spiral: From the E book of Noticed (starring Chris Rock and Samuel L Jackson), Jigsaw, Piranha 3D, Sorority Row, in addition to the following Noticed movie (tentatively titled Noticed X). The movie stars social media influencer Bryce Corridor, who is among the world’s most-followed folks on social media with over 50 million followers throughout his social media channels.
Talent Home would be the first movie to be “listed” on the leisure inventory trade (“ESX“), a first-of-its-kind platform permitting customers to put money into the movie and commerce in or out of the movie and its upside.
Talent Home takes a stab at social media influencers and will probably be an unflinching tackle fame and what new celebrities are prepared to do to realize it. It will likely be shot within the Sway Home, a mansion in Bel Air, made well-known by lots of Tik Tok’s greatest stars. It’ll skewer the panorama of younger celebrities who will do something for a “click on.”
“I’ve labored with a few of Hollywood’s greatest stars, together with Chris Rock and Sam Jackson, Carrie Fisher and Dwayne Johnson… however my youngsters are extra enthusiastic about this undertaking than another I’ve labored on,” stated Stolberg. “Working with Bryce Corridor and Ryan Kavanaugh, that is positive to be a primary of a brand new horror style. These social media personalities are the brand new Hollywood, and they’re reinventing what it means to be a star. When a younger child from Maryland, like Bryce, with nothing however a cellphone and a hoop gentle, can appeal to tens of tens of millions of followers on Tik-Tok and Instagram, it evens the taking part in discipline for everybody. However there’s a darkish facet to this new leisure panorama, and I’m excited to flip that rock over.”
“The movie will probably be a “exhausting R” horror movie and can have a gritty strategy to what it takes to reach a enterprise that depends on followers “liking you.” Stolberg added, “there’s nothing I like greater than writing a watercooler kill scene… and we’re already over price range with the quantity of blood we’re going to make use of. Whereas this idea might play for parody, I’ll be taking a extra severe strategy and leaning into scares and horror over humor. I’m not pulling punches. I’ve been given the inexperienced gentle to go for it. And I can’t wait!”
Kavanaugh has produced and or financed over 200 movies equivalent to Quick and Livid 3,4,5,6, Social Community, 300, MamaMia, Limitless, Fighter, Zombieland, and plenty of extra. Kavanaugh additionally beforehand owned Rogue Footage, which launched over 60 horror films, together with Strangers, The Unborn, and My Soul to Take.
Daniel Herther, who oversees manufacturing and artistic improvement at Proxima, will function govt producer. Earlier than becoming a member of Proxima, Herther produced the Nic Cage thriller Inconceivable and held govt roles at Relativity Media and WB’s Hollywood Gang (300).
Bryce Corridor is repped by Brad Baskin of Panther Administration. Proxima and Kavanaugh are repped by Neil Sacker.
