EXCLUSIVE: Two-time Academy Award nominee Melissa McCarthy is in talks to star in Turpentine, a new thriller directed by The Penguin and Mare of Easttown‘s Craig Zobel, Deadline has learned.
Based on a script by Justin Varava that made the 2024 Black List, Turpentine follows a deadbeat son who hires friends to rob his own parents to pay off a bookie, with disastrous results.
T-Street and ShivHans Pictures are set to produce.
The recipient of multiple Emmys and a pair of Oscar nominations, McCarthy will next be seen starring opposite Clive Owen in Unspeakable: The Murder of JonBenét Ramsey on Paramount+. Upcoming, she’ll also be heard voicing a lead role opposite Tony winner Cole Escola in Warner Bros. Pictures Animation’s Margie Claus. She is repped by CAA and Mgmt Entertainment.
Zobel is a filmmaker who broke out with films like Compliance and Z for Zachariah
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