NEON, the award-winning studio behind some of today’s most daring and acclaimed films, has announced that Brendan Hines (“The Tick”), Cush Jumbo (“The Good Wife,” “Criminal Record”), Heather Graham (“Drugstore Cowboy”), Johnny Knoxville (“Jackass”), Lexi Minetree (“Elle”), Lily Collias (“Good One”), and Tatiana Maslany (“Orphan Black”) have joined the ensemble cast of director Osgood Perkins’ latest feature “The Young People.” They join previously announced leads Lola Tung (“The Summer I Turned Pretty”) and Nico Parker (“The Last of Us”).
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The film, co-financed by Lyrical Media, is now in production in Vancouver. NEON will release “The Young People” theatrically in the U.S., handle international sales rights, and co-finance the project alongside Lyrical. Perkins produces with Chris Ferguson for Phobos and Brian Kavanaugh-Jones for Range.
While plot details are being kept under wraps, NEON has described Perkins’ developing project as “a bad trip,” suggesting a road trip and his fascination with psychological dread beneath disarming surfaces.
The ensemble adds even more luster to Perkins’ growing reputation as one of the most prolific filmmakers in modern genre cinema. In just the past three years, he’s delivered “Longlegs” (2024), “The Monkey” (2025), and the upcoming “Keeper,” due later this year — a prolific streak that’s positioned him as one of the busiest and most distinctive voices in contemporary horror and suspense.
Kris Thykier, Danny Perkins, and Mila Cottray serve as producers under the Mews Films and Two & Two Pictures banners, alongside executive producers Andrew Karpen and Kent Sanderson for Bleecker Street, Babak Anvari and Lucan Toh for Two & Two, Danielle Brandon and Georgia Goldsack for Archery Pictures, and Nick Shumaker and David Levine for Anonymous Content. Ashland Hill Media Finance is fully financing, with The Veterans handling international rights.
“The Young People” continues Perkins’ creative hot streak — a filmmaker now moving at a pace few genre directors can match, balancing studio partnerships and auteur control with the confidence of someone who, as his recent filmography proves, has found his rhythm.
