Directed by Alex Winter and starring Josh Gad and Kaya Scodelario, the dark comedy Adulthood is about to be launched by Republic Pictures

Best identified for enjoying Bill S. Preston, Esq. within the Bill & Ted motion pictures (and for being one of many vampires in The Lost Boys), Alex Winter additionally has many directing credit to his identify, together with the 1993 cult basic oddball comedy Freaked. His newest characteristic directorial effort is Adulthood, which is described as a darkly comedian trendy noir – and Variety studies that Adulthood has secured a U.S. and Canada distribution take care of Republic Pictures. A launch date has not but been introduced.

Winter offered the next assertion: “I couldn’t be extra excited to be working with Republic Pictures for the North American gross sales and launch of our movie. They have nice instincts and are devoted to high quality indie motion pictures.“

Scripted by novelist Michael M.B. Galvin, Adulthood tells the story of sister and brother Megan and Noah, who’re barely hanging on in current day America. When they uncover a useless physique, lengthy buried of their mother and father’ basement, the siblings are pulled again to the hometown they ran away from and right into a rabbit gap of crime and homicide.

The movie stars Josh Gad (Wolf Like Me), Kaya Scodelario (Crawl), Billie Lourd (American Horror Story), and Anthony Carrigan (Barry).

Winter additionally seems in an performing position, and produced Adulthood with Scott Kroopf, Russell Hollander, and Lisa Wolofsky, in addition to Michael Cho and Tim Lee of Olive Hill Media, and Danny Roberts, H.S. Naji, and Jackie Langelier of Fresh Fish Films. Olive Hill Media and Fresh Fish Films offered the funding. Connie Tavel serves as an govt producer alongside Mimi Rode of Olive Hill Media and Thorsten Schumacher of Rocket Science. Rocket Science is at the moment arranging finance for worldwide gross sales.

Michael M.B. Galvin beforehand labored on the screenplay for the 1999 comedy Freak Talks About Sex (which was primarily based on one in every of his novels) and Matthew Lillard’s 2012 characteristic directorial debut, Fat Kid Rules the World. On the performing facet of his profession, Alex Winter was most not too long ago seen within the horror comedy Destroy All Neighbors.

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