Natasha Lyonne will write and direct new film Bambo.
The Poker Face star is ready to helm the upcoming film – which is ready within the Nineteen Eighties and incorporates a Brooklyn-born boxing-promoter father as he tries and fails to make it huge and “takes his child daughter alongside for the hurly burly trip of tax evasion, cocaine, race vehicles, misplaced goals and heartbreak”, in response to The Hollywood Reporter.
Natasha will produce the film by means of her Animal Footage banner with Max Ferguson, together with Craig Mazin for Phrase Video games and Sarah Sarandos.
Taking pictures is ready to start in the summertime of 2026.
The movie might be Natasha’s second as a director, after she beforehand introduced her function directorial debut with the AI movie Uncanny Valley.
She just lately co-founded The Creators Coalition on AI (CCAI), which hopes to behave as a central coordinating hub to improve trade methods and establishments about how AI is impacting all industries.
Talking just lately about utilizing AI for her upcoming directorial debut, she advised Deadline: “Once you’re not producing in Midjourney, it takes longer, principally, as a result of it’s a crew of artists in there. We’re taking a look at each picture and sort of dialling it in. Every thing I’ve accomplished is at all times type of a five-year span from inception to the touch-and-go cycle of forged coming along with the funds.
“I believe it’s value remembering that we’d like hope and new concepts, and to keep in mind that we’re sort of the architects of this second, and the way all of us select to indicate up for one another is basically key.”