Olivia Cooke star of HBO’s Game of Thrones prequel House of the Dragon will star in Breeders. Adam McKay filmmaker of Netflix hit Don’t Look Up and an executive producer on HBO’s Winning Time, is one of the originators of the idea and is producing via his Hyperobject Industries banner along with the company’s Todd Schulman.
The project will mark the directorial debut feature of Kelsey Bollig who is a rising fright filmmaker, and it was just acquired by Lionsgate.
The logline is being kept locked in the Lionsgate vaul, but one source has described the projects as a social horror-thriller that is tonally in the vein of Fresh, a dating gone wrong thriller starring Daisy Edgar-Jones and Sebastian Stan that debuted on Hulu in March.
McKay came up with the idea with Brian Steele, who then wrote the screenplay and it was brought into the studio by Scott O’Brien and will be overseen by O’Brien and Brady Fujikawa.
Steele, who has most recently served as a producer and the primary writer for McKay’s Ambie-nominated podcast Death at the Wing. He’s written, directed and produced content for Funny or Die, TruTV, Fremantle, IGN and My Damn Channel.
Cooke recently appeared in the Oscar best picture nominee Sound of Metal, and currently co-stars on Apple TV+’s Slow Horses with Gary Oldman. In her highly anticipated House of the Dragon, which debuts Aug. 21, she plays a character named Alicent Hightower.
Cooke is repped by CAA, The Artists Partnership, Grandview, and Hansen, Jacobson. Bollig, who recently directed a series of short vignettes that will live between episodes of the latest season of Hunters for Amazon and Monkeypaw, is repped by by CAA, Grandview, and Yorn, Levine. Steel is repped by Hansen, Jacobson.
