David Mackenzie’s Oregon Thriller Sets Zazie Beetz, Marin Ireland, Riley Prior, Brendan Sexton III & Olivia Luccardi

EXCLUSIVE: We have learned that the director of the 4x Oscar nominated western Hell or High Water, David Mackenzie, has completed shooting a new psychological thriller which is set in the Pacific Northwest and currently going by ‘untitled Oregon project.’ The pic stars Riley Prior in the lead role, who can next be seen in the Off Broadway production of A View From the Bridge opposite Sam Rockwell, Alfred Molina and Carla Cugino. In Mackenzie’s latest, she portrays a young woman who grew up in isolation outside Portland Oregon. She tries to navigate the city for the first time while confronting mysteries from her past. Also starring are Primetime Emmy nominated Zazie Beetz (Atlanta), Critics Choice nominee Marin Ireland (who also starred in Mackenzie’s Hell or High Water; Devil in Disguise: John Wayne Gacy), Brendan Sexton III (Russian Doll, Ballard) and Olivia Luccardi (The Baltimorons, It Follows). Mackenzie directed from a script by Ewan Morrison. Mackenzie and Kyle Eaton serve as producers. Watch on Deadline The director’s canon includes such features as last year’s action pic Fuze, Relay, The Outlaw King starring Chris Pine, as well as 2003’s Young Adam. Hell or High Water world premiered at Cannes and blasted off like a rocket for Lionsgate earning Oscar noms for Best Picture, Jeff Bridges in Supporting Actor, Taylor Sheridan’s original screenplay and film editing. Beetz starred in the thired highest grossing R-rated movie ever, Warner Bros’ Oscar winning DC title The Joker ($1 billion) as well as New Line’s They Will Kill You, The Bad Guys franchise, Bullet Train and as Van on FX’s Atlanta which landed her a 2018 Supporting Actress in a Comedy Series nomination. Ireland’s credits include Netflix’s The Umbrella Academy, Dope Thief, and the feature The Boogeyman. Ireland received a Critics Choice nomination earlier this year for Devil in Disguise in the Best Supporting Actress in a Limited Series or Movie Made for Television category. Mackenzie is repped by UTA, United Agents, and Jackoway Austen Tyerman Wertheimer Mandelbaum Morris Bernstein Trattner Auerbach Hynick Jaime LeVine Sample & Klein. Prior is represented by CESD and Untitled. Ireland is repped by UTA, Untitled Entertainment, and JSSK. Beetz is repped by WME, Entertainment 360 and Sloane, Offer, Weber & Dern. Sexton is repped by TCA Mgmt and Authentic Talent and Literary Management. Luccardi is repped by Paradigm, Circle Management + Production, and Myman Greenspan Fox Rosenberg Mobster Younger & Light.