Kelly Marie Tran, Benedict Wong and Jimmy O. Yang have been set to star in Rock Springs, a new film written and to be directed by Two Sentence Horror Stories creator and Expats scribe Vera Miao.
The plot of the drama centers on a grieving young girl who, along with her mother and grandmother, moves to Rock Springs, WY after the death of her father, only to discover there is something monstrous hidden in the town’s history and the woods behind their new house.
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Aria Kim (Whisper) and Fiona Fu (Tigertail) also star in the pic, from Macro Film Studios, Juniper Productions, Mandalay Pictures, Counterculture and Gold House. Macro, Juniper and Gold House are co-financing.
Miao, whose Two Sentence Horror Stories ran for three seasons on the CW, originated the idea for Rock Springs and it was developed by Counterculture, which brought on Macro to produce and finance. Macro then brought in with Mandalay and their partner Juniper. Gold House came aboard to co-finance, serve as executive producers and provide cultural consultation.
Stephen Feder and Kiri Hart are producing for Counterculture; James Lopez, Poppy Hanks and Greta Talia Fuentes for Macro; Matthew Lindner for Juniper; and Jason Michael Berman and Jordan Moldo for Mandalay. EPs are Macro’s Charles D. King, Mandalay’s Mike Downing, and Christine Yi and Brian Nemes for Gold House.
Miao’s writing credits also include the Slamdance pic Best Friends Forever, and she wrote for AMC’s Fear the Walking Dead before becoming a supervising producer and writer on Prime Video’s limited series Expats, starring Nicole Kidman and directed by Lulu Wang. She is repped by CAA, Circle Management + Production and Ramo Law.
Tran (Star Wars, Raya and the Last Dragon) is repped by CAA, M88 and Goodman, Genow, Schenkman, Smelkinson & Christopher, Wong (3 Body Problem) is repped by Hirsch Wallerstein Hayum Matlof & Fishman. Yang (Interior Chinatown) is with CAA, Artists First, and Schreck Rose Dapello Adams Berlin & Dunham. Kim (Whisper) is repped by MVM Agency, and Fu (Tigertail) is with BRS/Gage Talent Agency and Echelon Talent Management.