EXCLUSIVE: It appears like there current expertise on Saturday Evening Reside went very properly as Keke Palmer and four-time Grammy successful musician Sza are set to star in an Untitled Buddy Comedy from TriStar Footage with producer Isaa Rae producing. Rap Sh!t director Lawrence Lamont is about to direct with the screenplay written by his Rap Sh!t teammate Syreeta Singleton, who serves because the collection showrunner.
Rae and Sara Diya Rastogi will produce by Rae’s banner Hoorae, ColorCreative’s Deniese Davis and Charles D. King, James Lopez and Poppy Hanks from MACRO Movie Studios. Singleton is co-producing. Massive Boss’ Palmer and Sharon Palmer are govt producing. MACRO Movie Studios is approaching board to co-finance and produce.
The challenge got here collectively from the CoCre lab at Sony Footage with plot particulars being saved below wraps. The lab was a earlier pact between ColorCreative and Columbia Footage to supply and incubate rising, numerous screenwriters to develop and write their first studio function based mostly on authentic concepts.
Palmer and SZA first teamed up for Saturday Evening Reside when Palmer hosted and SZA was the musical visitor. This marks SZA’s performing debut and the musician had been contemplating a quantity tasks as her first and the chance to reunite with Palmer was too good to move up.
Palmer rose to prominence by her breakout function in Akeelah and the Bee and has gone on to star in over 25 movies and 30 TV exhibits, together with Jordan Peele’s acclaimed movie Nope, Roadside Attraction’s Alice, which she additionally govt produced, STX’s Hustlers, FOX’s Scream Queens and Nickelodeon’s True Jackson, VP. She just lately launched her record-breaking podcast, Child, That is Keke Palmer for Wondery/Amazon, and based her personal digital community, KeyTV for which she has written, produced, and starred in varied authentic content material, together with her directorial debut, the brief movie Massive Boss, accompanied by an album of the identical title, launched in Might 2023.
Palmer earned a 2021 Primetime Emmy Award for her self-created collection, Turnt Up With the Taylors, and just lately made historical past as the primary Black girl to win ‘Excellent Host For A Recreation Present’ on the 2023 Emmys for her work internet hosting NBC’s reboot of Password.
SZA is an Academy Award nominee and 4-time Grammy Award successful recording artist, whose main label debut album Ctrl landed at No. 1 on Billboard’s R&B Albums chart, No. 2 on the R&B/Hip Hop Albums chart and No. 3 on the Billboard 200 chart. RIAA-certified 3x Platinum, the album obtained 5 Grammy nominations in 2018 and holds the report for the longest run for any Black feminine artist’s debut album. In 2018 she collaborated with Kendrick Lamar within the track All of the Stars for the motion film Black Panther. The track obtained 4 nominations on the 61st Annual Grammy Awards together with Report of the Yr and Track of the Yr, together with Golden Globe Award nomination for Greatest Unique Track and an Academy Award nomination for Greatest Unique Track as properly.
Author/director Lamont has directed music movies for a few of the trade’s largest artists together with, J. Cole, Massive Sean, Kanye West, O’Shea Jackson Jr., Jhene Aiko, Nas and Snoop Dogg. His music video for Massive Sean’s IDFWU received BET’s Video of the Yr and most just lately MTV’s Greatest Hip Hop video. Most just lately, Lamont has directed a number of episodes of HBO collection, Rap Sh!t.
Palmer is repped by 3 Arts Leisure, Hertz Lichtenstein, Younger & Polk and LUNA PR. SZA is repped by WME for theatrical and Prime Dawg Leisure. Lamont is repped by CoCre and Johnson Shapiro Slewett & Kole. Singleton is repped by CoCre and UTA.