EXCLUSIVE: Alex Kavutskiy has added four to the dark comedy Little One, marking his feature directorial debut: Amy Smart (Stargirl), Chiara Aurelia (Cruel Summer), Redding Munsell (At the Sea), and Derek Luh (Gen V).
While sources indicated that Munsell and Aurelia play children at the heart of the film, whose parents are played by the previously announced David Harbour and Gaby Hoffmann, character details for the others are under wraps.
Reuniting the Weapons producing duo of Zach Cregger and Roy Lee, Little One watches as a sudden change in a child’s behavior threatens to tear a picture-perfect family apart. The film is financed by Alex Lebovici’s Hammerstone Studios, in a reunion with Barbarian collaborators Cregger and Lee, and is shooting in Los Angeles under a California tax credit this month.
Kavutskiy penned the script and is producing alongside Lebovici, Chris McEwen (Love, Simon), and Amanda Phillips and Melina Torres of Soto Productions (Winner, The Assistant). Ibrahim Mohammed of Script 2 Screen is exec producing and co-financing alongside Chase Vergari. Kevin G. Lee is exec producing for Astria Studios, which is providing additional financing, with First Take Media Capital and David Goldman also aboard as EPs, along with Michael Learner, Karina Manashil and Sian McArthur under Hammerstone. Sacker Entertainment Law is handling production legal.
The project, which we scooped in April, marks a return to his roots for Cregger, a founding member and writer for the New York comedy troupe, The Whitest Kids U’ Know.
Most recently seen starring in indies like Held Hostage in My House, Rally Caps and The Christmas Classic, along with three seasons of The CW’s Stargirl, Smart is repped by Paradigm and Brillstein.
Aurelia is known for turns in projects like Cruel Summer, Luckiest Girl Alive, Hysteria!, and John Proctor is The Villain on Broadway. She is also repped by Paradigm and Brillstein.
Munsell stars alongside Amy Adams in Kornél Mundruczó’s drama At the Sea, which premiered at this year’s Berlinale. Upcoming, he’ll also be seen in FX’s adaptation of the Bret Easton Ellis novel The Shards. He is repped by Paradigm and Mgmt Artists.
Luh is best known for playing the masculine form of Jordan Li, a superhero with the ability to shift between two different gendered bodies, in Gen V, Amazon’s spinoff of The Boys. Previously, he could be seen in Starz’s Shining Vale, opposite Courteney Cox and Greg Kinnear, with additional credits including CBS’s All Rise and Hulu and Marvel Studios’ Runaways. He is repped by Independent Artist Group, Untitled Entertainment, and Sloane, Offer, Weber & Dern.
