EXCLUSIVE: Berlin-based sales outfit Media Move has boarded The Unlucky, the sci-fi thriller set to star and be produced by Mortal Kombat actor Ludi Lin.
Quentin Lee is aboard to direct and produce. Media Move will introduce the project to international buyers at next month’s Cannes market.
Co-written and directed by Lee, The Unlucky is a Canadian genre feature about an Asian Yale graduate student who falls for a captivating young woman and accepts an invitation to her family’s Thanksgiving gathering—only to find himself ensnared in an alienating con that spirals into unimaginable horror.
Lin and Lee will produce under Lee’s British Columbia-based banner, Margin Films. The screenplay is co-written by Dennis Escobedo (Last Summer of Nathan Lee) and Lee, based on Lee’s original story. The sales deal was brokered by Jennifer Price, executive producer of The Unlucky. Start date has yet to be set.
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