Tubi has greenlit three new YA films starring Xochitl Gomez (Doctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madness), Chase Hudson (Downfalls High) aka Huddy, and Asher Angel (Shazam! Fury of the Gods), the company announced today.
Gomez leads Hive, a real-time, socially conscious horror-thriller about a strict, anxious teenager who loses the child she’s babysitting and must brave a sinister force hiding in plain sight among the children in the playground. As her world unravels and her grip on reality starts to slip, she must outwit a world where nothing is as it seems to make it out alive. Felipe Vargas has written and will direct the adaptation of his short of the same name. Blue Ice Pictures will produce alongside Nick Scully, Adam Friedlander and Darren Cameron, with Lance Samuels and Samantha Levine exec producing.
Kissing Is the Easy Part, starring Angel, adapts the Wattpad webnovel by Christine Duann. Written by Rebecca Webb, the film follows straight-A overachiever Sean (Angel) as he makes a deal to tutor wild child Flora in exchange for a college recommendation letter to his dream school. But when sparks fly, school is the least of their problems. The film is produced by Wattpad Webtoon Studios’ David Madden, Jason Goldberg and Aron Levitz. Angel is exec producing alongside Blue Ice Pictures’ Lance Samuels and Samantha Levine.
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