According to The Hollywood Reporter, actress/Elvis Presley’s granddaughter Riley Keough (Mad Max: Fury Road, The Girlfriend Experience) is set to join Andrew Garfield, Dakota Johnson and Topher Grace in David Robert Mitchell’s Under the Silver Lake. Mitchell will direct his original script, which is the follow-up to his critically-acclaimed film It Follows. Production is set to start soon with A24 and Insiders handling domestic and international distribution, respectively.
Michael De Luca (The Social Network, Moneyball, 50 Shades of Grey trilogy) is producing under his Michael De Luca Productions banner. Chris Bender and Jake Weiner (A History of Violence) and Adele Romanski (Black Rock) are producing as well. Lucy Kitada is overseeing for Michael De Luca Productions. Silver Lake is a modern day noir crime thriller set in Los Angeles.
David Robert Mitchell rose to prominence with It Follows, which premiered in 2014 at the Cannes Film Festival to critical praise. It was one of 2015’s break-out independent hits around the world. His first feature, The Myth of the American Sleepover, premiered at the SXSW Film Festival, winning a Special Jury Prize and premiered internationally at Cannes Critics’ Week.
Keough recently wrapped a role opposite Daniel Craig and Channing Tatum in Steven Soderbergh’s Logan Lucky. She’ll also star in the horror/mystery It Comes At Night opposite Joel Edgerton.
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