EXCLUSIVE: Ji-Young Yoo completed the cast of eOne and Macros strange stories, Directed by Ryan Fleck and Anna Boden. She joins Pedro Pascal, Ben Mendelsohn, Jack Champion, Angus Cloud, Dominique Thorne, Keir Gilchrist and Michelle Farrah Huang, as well as a number of notable Oakland residents who are also on board.
The film is being financed by eOne, with the studio’s Jillian Share, Jen Gorton and Chanel Vidal overseeing the film’s production; Share and Gorton are executive producers. Makro Film Studios’ Jelani Johnson and Poppy Hanks will serve as producers, and Charles D. King and James F. Lopez will serve as executive producers. Also executive producing are Too $hort and his manager David Weintraub, while Oakland-born Grammy winner Raphael Saadiq oversees the film’s music.
playing in Oakland in 1987, Strange Stories is an entirely original, immersive film inspired by Fleck’s experiences growing up in the Bay Area. The film consists of four interconnected stories, each with distinct characters, real locations, and notable historical events (some real, others imagined).
Yoo will star in Amazon’s upcoming limited series foreigners with Nicole Kidman for director Lulu Wang. She was last seen in Josephine Decker’s feature film Heaven is everywhere for A24/AppleTV+. She starred in the world premiere of East West Players man of god, a dark thriller comedy. Soon she will star in the independent film smoking tigers Directed by So Young Shelly Yo.
She is repped by Entertainment 360, Gersh and Del Shaw Moonves Tanaka Finkelstein Lezcano Bobb & Dang.
Writer: Justin Krull
Source: Deadline
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