Kathryn Newton & Lana Condor Set For 'Devil's Mouth' Movie
Ant-Man and the Wasp: Quantumania actress Kathryn Newton and Coyote vs. Acme star Lana Condor are headlining Amazon MGM Studios’ Devil’s Mouth, from director Jeff Wadlow.
The survival thriller, a co-production with Lionsgate, follows college friends who on a trip to get to Thailand who get trapped in an underwater cave system with a bull shark. Old tensions and power struggles resurface as they fight to survive.
Aja Gabel (Sunny, The Staircase, upcoming Five Star Weekend) and Myung Joh Wesner (Star Wars: Skeleton Crew, High Potential) wrote the script, which was featured on the 2019 Black List, with latest revisions by Wadlow.
Producers include Thunder Road Films’ Basil Iwanyk and Erica Lee, and Wadlow. Thunder Road is natch, behind the John Wick movies. Carsten Lorenz will executive produce. Chelsea Kujawa will oversee for Lionsgate. Helen Lee-Kim and Michael Meyer negotiated the deal on behalf of Lionsgate.
Newton most recently starred opposite Dan Stevens in Universal’s vampire thriller Abigail. Last year, she starred in Lisa Frankenstein for Focus Features. She also entered the Marvel Universe as Cassie Lang in Ant-Man and the Wasp: Quantumania, and headlined Amazon MGM Studios’ sci-fi romance The Map of Tiny Perfect Things. She also starred in the body-swap slasher Freaky opposite Vince Vaughn. Her earlier credits include blockbusters like Pokemon Detective Pikachu, Netflix’s fan-favorite series The Society, and Universal’s Blockers, the top-grossing R-rated comedy of 2018. Up next, she will star in Searchlight’s Ready or Not 2, opposite Samara Weaving.
Condor was recently seen starring in Valiant One, which was released in January, and will next be seen in the romantic comedy Worth the Wait for Tubi. Next in film, Condor will star in the action-thriller Ballerina Overdrive, produced by David Leitch. She also stars in Coyote vs. Acme alongside Will Forte and John Cena, which is expected to release worldwide in theaters sometime next year. On TV, Condor recently appeared in several episodes of Abbott Elementary. She became a household name in 2018 with the launch of Netflix’s feature film To All the Boys I’ve Loved Before, based on Jenny Han’s New York Times bestselling novel. Condor reprised her role in To All the Boys: P.S. I Still Love You (2020) and To All the Boys: Always and Forever (2021). Additional credits include Moonshot, Alita: Battle Angel, Boo, Bitch, Deadly Class, X-Men: Apocalypse, and Ruby Gillman: Teenage Kraken.
DGA Award nominee Wadlow’s most recent theatrical film, Imaginary, marked his third collaboration with Jason Blum under a first-look deal that launched Wadlow’s own production company, Tower of Babble Entertainment. Prior to that, he was the director and executive producer of The Curse of Bridge Hollow, starring Marlon Wayans (White Chicks), which debuted at No. 1 on Netflix. This followed the two feature films he had in theaters at the same time: Bloodshot, the big-screen adaptation of the comic book Wadlow developed and wrote for Sony/Columbia Pictures, starring Vin Diesel (The Fast and the Furious); and Fantasy Island, the re-imagining of the classic TV show that Wadlow directed, wrote, and produced for Blumhouse. His first collaboration with Blum, the original theatrical feature Truth or Dare (via Universal Studios), grossed roughly $100M in theaters from a budget of just $3.5M. Wadlow’s other credits include True Memoirs of an International Assassin, Kick Ass 2, Never Back Down, Non-Stop, Bates Motel, The Strain, Ryan Hansen Solves Crime on Television, and the reboot of the ’90s TV show Are You Afraid of the Dark?
Newton is represented by WME, Entertainment 360, and Hansen, Jacobson, Teller, Hoberman. Condor is represented by CAA, Untitled Entertainment and Goodman, Genow, Schenkman, Smelkinson & Christopher. Wadlow is represented by UTA, Artists First, Empirical, and Hirsch Wallerstein Hayum Matlof and Fishman. Gabel is represented at UTA, Untitled, and Writers House. Wesner is represented by Verve and Artists First.