Laverne Cox Joins McG’s Netflix Fantasy Movie ‘Uglies’
By Matt Grobar by way of Deadline Hollywood
DEADLINE HOLLYWOOD EXCLUSIVE: Laverne Cox (Promising Younger Girl, Orange Is the New Black) is the newest addition to the solid of Uglies, the dystopian fantasy movie based mostly on Scott Westerfeld’s worldwide bestseller of the identical title, which McG is directing for Netflix.
She joins a solid led by Joey King, which additionally consists of Keith Powers, Brianne Tju and Chase Stokes, as beforehand introduced.
Uglies is about in a world by which a obligatory operation at sixteen makes everybody fairly by conforming to an excellent normal of magnificence. Whereas King will presumably painting the novel’s lead character, Tally Youngblood, the position to be performed by Cox has not but been disclosed.
Krista Vernoff dealt with the screenplay adaptation. John Davis and Jordan Davis are producing for Davis Leisure Firm, with Robyn Meisinger for Nameless Content material, Dan Spilo for Business Leisure, and McG and Mary Viola for Wonderland. Joey King is exec producing alongside Jamie King, Scott Westerfeld and John Fox.
Cox is a two-time SAG Award winner and a four-time Emmy nominee finest identified for her flip as Litchfield Penitentiary inmate Sophia Burset in Netflix’s Emmy-winning collection, Orange Is the New Black, created by Jenji Kohan. She’ll subsequent be seen in Shonda Rhimes’ Netflix miniseries Inventing Anna, which is about to premiere on February 11. The actress has additionally appeared on the TV aspect in The Blacklist, Curb Your Enthusiasm, Awkafina Is Nora from Queens, A Black Girl Sketch Present, Expensive White Individuals, The Mindy Undertaking, Doubt and extra. Her movie credit embrace Emerald Fennell’s Oscar winner Promising Younger Girl, by which she starred reverse Carey Mulligan; Justin Simien’s Hulu horror comedy, Unhealthy Hair; and writer-director Paul Weitz’s acclaimed Sony Photos Classics drama, Grandma.
Cox is represented by ICM Companions, PH Leisure Group and Peikoff Mahan.
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