Channing Tatum to Star in Zoë Kravitz’s Directorial Debut

Zoë Kravitz will make her directorial debut on a characteristic referred to as “Pussy Island,” and she’s going to direct Channing Tatum within the lead function as a tech mogul in a tropical paradise harboring a harmful secret.

Kravitz wrote the script to “Pussy Island” with E.T. Feigenbaum, and the movie is the story of a Los Angeles cocktail waitress who maneuvers her manner into the interior circle of a philanthropist and tech mogul performed by Tatum, arriving on his personal island the place she begins to sense that there’s extra to Tatum’s character than meets the attention and that he’s hiding one thing terrifying on the island.

Kravitz may also produce the movie, as will Tatum’s Free Association banner. Bruce Cohen and Tiffany Persons may also produce. Filming hopes to start subsequent yr.

Kravitz in an interview with Deadline defined that she started writing the movie in 2017 and that the movie’s title “Pussy Island” was one thing of a joke, however that it took on deeper that means as conversations about sexuality have developed.

“It alludes to this time and place we claim to not be in anymore, in terms of sexual politics. People are evolving and changing but there is still a bad taste in a lot of people’s mouths from past behavior,” she stated.

Kravitz describes “Pussy Island” as a style thriller however with comedy and drama parts to it, and a launch says the movie is an “essential piece of zeitgeist cinema.” “This is not a story about empowerment. This is a story about power.”

She additionally wrote the a part of the waitress as a dream function for herself to play with the intention of giving it to a different actress, however Kravitz developed the movie with Tatum in thoughts for the lead. She added that she considered Tatum as “a true feminist” and wished him to debate the movie’s gender and sexual politics.

“No one gives me a chance to play a role like this, everybody throws me down a different alley and expects me to do a certain thing,” Tatum additionally advised Deadline. “It was scary and liberating, just to be able to have a free conversation, where I was allowed to mess up, and say the wrong things. It became less about men and women and on more of a human thing that will open people’s eyes.”

“Pussy Island” might be offered to patrons on the Cannes Film Market subsequent week, with FilmNation dealing with worldwide rights and CAA Media Finance dealing with home. The movie is a co-production between This Is Important, Free Association and Bruce Cohen Productions.

Zoë Kravitz reduce her enamel as a author and producer on her present “High Fidelity” for Hulu, and he or she’ll subsequent star as Catwoman in “The Batman” with Robert Pattinson. Tatum additionally not too long ago completed his directorial debut “Dog,” which he starred in and co-directed with Reid Carolin. He’s additionally presently filming the journey movie “The Lost City of D” with Sandra Bullock.

Kravitz is represented by CAA and Untitled. Tatum is represented by CAA.

Deadline first reported the information.