HBO Max to Release New Gina Rodriguez Film ‘Bobbie Sue’

HBO Max will launch the function movie “Bobbie Sue,” starring Gina Rodriguez when the service launches, the streamer introduced on Tuesday.

The movie can be produced by Donald De Line (“Body of Lies,” “Ready Player One”) and directed by “Drumline” and “Uncle Drew” filmmaker Charles Stone III.

Golden Globe-winner Rodriguez will star as Bobbie Sue, who after being raised amongst 4 rowdy brothers in a blue-collar neighborhood, is a scrappy, headstrong younger lawyer who lands a career-making case with an upper-crust legislation agency. She comes to understand, nonetheless, that she’s been employed for optics and never her experience. But after discovering her highly effective shopper, a lifelong idol of hers, is making an attempt to cowl up exploiting employees inside her firm, Bobbie decides to take each her and the legislation agency on, warning and etiquette be damned.

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“Giving a project like Bobbie Sue the reach and accessibility that HBO Max provides is what every filmmaker is looking for right now,” De Line mentioned in a press release. “Gina Rodriguez and Charles Stone III both have an incredible talent for bringing rich characters, timely stories and authentic worlds to life.”

Rodriguez final starred within the Netflix movie “Someone Great,” which was a part of the streamer’s push to faucet right into a gap within the romantic comedy style. The “Jane the Virgin” actress additionally voices the character Gina Alvarez in Netflix’s animated sequence “Big Mouth,” which dropped its third season earlier this month.

HBO Max executives mentioned on Tuesday that the corporate will plan to launch 5 to 10 motion pictures per 12 months on the the streaming service.

HBO Max will launch in May 2020 with roughly 10,000 hours of content material. The service will supply programming that features a slate of recent unique sequence, third-party licensed  packages and flicks, in addition to content material from WarnerMedia’s library together with  Warner Bros., New Line, DC, CNN, TNT, TBS, truTV, Turner Classic Movies, Cartoon Network, Adult Swim, Crunchyroll, Rooster Teeth, Looney Tunes and extra.