Kathryn Newton, Dove Cameron Join Hot Year Cast
Deadline has reported the cast for the upcoming coming-of-age revenge horror/thriller Hot Year by filmmaker Roxy Sophie Sorkin, set to be her feature debut following credits on the shorts Vodka and Swollen.
The film’s cast is set to feature Ready or Not 2: Here I Come’s Kathryn Newton, The Invisible Man’s Storm Reid, 56 Days star Dove Cameron, Succession’s J. Smith Cameron and Wednesday’s Owen Painter.
Sharing details with Deadline, the director shared: “Hot Year is an exploration into brutal honesty and boiling, seething, grotesque womanhood.”
“It’s a movie I wish I had held dear when I was 18. It’s a forehead kiss and a spit in the face,” Sorkin added. “Be prepared to wear fairy wings and bring Fireball.”
Hot Year‘s title is fitting as plot details reveal it will play out “against the eerie backdrop of a small Pacific Northwest town during a relentless heatwave.”
We will tag along with “two childhood best friends whose bond is pushed to the brink after a revenge plan against an ex-boyfriend spirals into a violent incident they can’t take back. Over the course of one feverish night, the pair must navigate the consequences of their actions as buried trauma, loyalty and identity collide.”
“Roxy has a really distinct and exciting voice as a filmmaker,” shares Wagner Entertainment’s Jordan Wagner, who takes on production alongside Christine Vachon, Evan Silverberg, Dylan Conklin, Ryan Hamilton, Amanda Larney and George Bicknell.
The script has been cited by Wagner as “bold…emotional, but also fun and unpredictable in a way that feels fresh”, embedding itself “into something very real about friendship and identity at that age, and I think audiences are going to really connect with it.”
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