It’s been more than five years since director Lulu Wang‘s breakout family dramedy “The Farewell,” but she is finally returning to features with “Audition,” a thriller based on the Katie Kitamura novel (not to be confused with the Takashi Miike horror movie) with some high-profile actors in lead roles.
The exciting news of Wang’s return to features, after helming the Hong Kong-set Nicole Kidman series “Expats,” hails from trades like Variety, revealing that Lucy Liu and Charles Melton have been cast.
Here is the original novel’s logline from publisher Penguin Random House:
Two people meet for lunch in a Manhattan restaurant. She’s an accomplished actress in rehearsals for an upcoming premiere. He’s attractive, troubling, young—young enough to be her son. Who is he to her, and who is she to him? In this compulsively readable, brilliantly constructed novel, two competing narratives unspool, rewriting our understanding of the roles we play every day – partner, parent, creator, muse – and the truths every performance masks, especially from those who think they know us most intimately.
Melton is an actor on the rise with the following projects under his belt, such as “May December,” “Warfare,” “Poker Face,” “Beef,” “Her Private Hell,” and has recently joined the cast of “Saturn Return.”
Laika, the studio known for magical stop-motion animation, is producing alongside The Obamas‘ Higher Ground Productions. This may be a push from the studio to get into more live-action projects, and we can’t wait to see who else ends up in the cast of Wang’s “Audition.”
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