{"id":610985,"date":"2026-09-25T03:32:13","date_gmt":"2026-09-25T03:32:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/610985\/"},"modified":"2026-09-25T03:32:13","modified_gmt":"2026-09-25T03:32:13","slug":"jena-malone-dermot-mulroney-vannessa-vasquez-land-moon-people","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/610985\/","title":{"rendered":"Jena Malone, Dermot Mulroney, Vannessa Vasquez Land ‘Moon People’"},"content":{"rendered":"

\n\tEXCLUSIVE: Jena Malone<\/a>, Dermot Mulroney<\/a>, Mekhi Phifer<\/a> & Vannessa Vasquez<\/a> are astronauts in a trip to outer space in the Stanley Yung directed indie feature Moon People<\/a>.<\/p>\n

\n\tWritten by Niko Foster, Moon People follows a team of astronauts who travel to the Moon to confirm the discovery of water, but they soon encounter unexpected danger and struggle to survive. The pic was shot in Lexington, Kentucky. <\/p>\n

\n\tMalone plays Dr. Jennifer Foster while Mulroney will portray Sam Foster. Phifer is Cape Josh Briley and Vasquez is Dr. Diana Alvarez. <\/p>\n

\n\tMoon People is a production of Al Bravo Films with producers Al Bravo, Michael Pizzimenti and Tim Sabo. EPs are Renata Stiglich and Pejman Partiyeli. Co-Producers are Hemdee Kiwanuka, Jacov Bresler and Michelle Wang. <\/p>\n

\n\tMalone is the star of The Hunger Games franchise, Nic Winding Refn\u2019s Neon Demon and Prime series Too Old to Die Young, The Boroughs series, Sundance premiere Love Lies Bleeding, Kevin Costner\u2019s Horizon: An American Saga \u2013 Part 1 and Zack Snyder\u2019s Rebel Moon \u2013 Part One: A Child of Fire.<\/p>\n

\n\tMulroney will next be seen in Season 2 of Netflix\u2019s The Hunting Wives, opposite Malin Akerman and Brittany Snow, returning as Jed Banks. He will also star alongside John Travolta and Mandy Patinkin in Roland Joff\u00e9\u2019s historical crime thriller November 1963, and currently stars in Art Camacho\u2019s action thriller Ruthless. It was recently announced that he will return as Everett Stone for Searchlight\u2019s The Families Stone. His film and television credits include Anyone But You, Marvel\u2019s Secret Invasion, New Girl, American Horror Story, August: Osage County, The Family Stone, Friends, and My Best Friend\u2019s Wedding.<\/p>\n

\n\tPhifer starred on 136 episodes of ER, as well as the Apple TV series Truth Be Told, Hulu\/ABC\u2019s High Potential as well Spike Lee\u2019s Clockers, Zack Snyder\u2019s Dawn of the Dead, and the Oscar winning 8 Mile. <\/p>\n

\n\tActress, producer and screenwriter Vasquez starred on the Hulu series East Los High, Walker, MacGyver, Border Patrol and Disney+\u2019s National Treasure: Edge of History, the feature Say A Little Prayer and the ABC series The Fix. <\/p>\n

\n\tMalone and Phifer are repped by Gersh. Mulroney is repped by Paradigm. Vasquez is represented by Pastorini Bosby Talent. <\/p>\n

\n\tYung is the producer of Ethan Mao and the director of Shadow Dancer. He is repped by Allen Edelman Management.<\/p>\n

Pic\u2019s casting directors are Justin Nesbitt (The Hunting Season, Oscar Shaw, The Wrecker) and Victoria Lewis (D.O.P.E. Unit, War Dawgz, Hands).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"EXCLUSIVE: Jena Malone, Dermot Mulroney, Mekhi Phifer & Vannessa Vasquez are astronauts in a trip to outer space…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":610986,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[32],"tags":[430,225197,156,301079,214670,301080,111,139,69,301081],"class_list":["post-610985","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-celebrities","tag-celebrities","tag-dermot-mulroney","tag-entertainment","tag-jena-malone","tag-mekhi-phifer","tag-moon-people","tag-new-zealand","tag-newzealand","tag-nz","tag-vannessa-vasquez"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/610985","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=610985"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/610985\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/610986"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=610985"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=610985"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=610985"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}