{"id":96944,"date":"2025-10-23T17:49:07","date_gmt":"2025-10-23T17:49:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/96944\/"},"modified":"2025-10-23T17:49:07","modified_gmt":"2025-10-23T17:49:07","slug":"neon-movie-from-chloe-okuno-adds-four-to-cast","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/96944\/","title":{"rendered":"Neon Movie From Chloe Okuno Adds Four To Cast"},"content":{"rendered":"

\n\tEXCLUSIVE: Harry Lawtey<\/a> (Industry), Jodie Turner-Smith<\/a> (Tron: Ares), Viola Prettejohn<\/a> (The Testament of Ann Lee), and Burn Gorman<\/a> (upcoming Frankenstein) have joined Olivia Cooke in Brides<\/a>, the new Neon horror film from Chloe Okuno, which entered production in Budapest this week.<\/p>\n

\n\tBrides finds Sally Bishop (Cooke) and her husband on a trip to Northern Italy in 1961, where they get stranded at a remote villa run by the enigmatic Vova (Lawtey), who presides over a household of beautiful, deathless women (Turner-Smith, Prettejohn) and their caretaker (Gorman). As Sally becomes entangled in their world of seduction, violence and illusion, she begins to lose her grip on time and self as her own dark transformation unfolds.<\/p>\n

\n\tGorman reunites with Okuno after playing a memorable enigma of a movie monster in her debut feature, Watcher.<\/p>\n

\n\tOkuno is directing from her own script. Producers include Anthony Bregman, Stefanie Azpiazu and Greg Zuk for Likely Story, with Manor Kill Media providing financing. Neon boarded North American rights to the film last year and will serve as its distributor. Focus International will release it internationally, with FilmNation in some territories.<\/p>\n

\n\tBest known for starring in the first three seasons of the hit HBO\/BBC series Industry, Lawtey recently portrayed famed actor Richard Burton in the film Mr Burton. Other notable credits include Joker: Folie \u00e0 Deux and the upcoming Under Salt Marsh and Billion Dollar Spy. He is represented by CAA, Hamilton Hodell and Goodman, Genow, Schenkman.<\/p>\n

\n\tBreaking out with her starring role opposite Daniel Kaluuya in Universal\u2019s Queen & Slim, Turner-Smith\u2019s other credits include starring roles in Kogonada\u2019s After Yang, Channel 5\u2019s Anne Boleyn, Apple TV\u2019s Bad Monkey and Noah Baumbach\u2019s White Noise. Currently, she can be seen in Tron: Ares and Paramount+ with Showtime\u2019s The Agency, which returns for its second season next year. She is repped by UTA, 111 Media and Johnson Shapiro Slewett & Kole.<\/p>\n

\n\tPrettejohn portrayed a young Princess Elizabeth in the sixth season of Netflix\u2019s The Crown and will next be seen in the musical drama The Testament of Ann Lee from The Brutalist scribe Mona Fastvold, which premiered in Venice ahead of a Christmas Day release. Other TV credits include Wolf Hall, The Witcher and Counterpart. She is repped by CAA, Insight Management & Production and Circle Management and Production.<\/p>\n

\n\tSoon to be seen in Guillermo del Toro\u2019s Frankenstein and the next film from Alejandro Gonz\u00e1lez I\u00f1\u00e1rritu, starring Tom Cruise, Gorman\u2019s other credits include Christopher Nolan\u2019s The Dark Knight Rises, Tim Burton\u2019s Beetlejuice Beetlejuice, Del Toro\u2019s Pacific Rim and Pinocchio, The Hunger Games: The Ballad of Songbirds & Snakes and Game of Thrones. He is repped by B-Side Management and Verve.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"EXCLUSIVE: Harry Lawtey (Industry), Jodie Turner-Smith (Tron: Ares), Viola Prettejohn (The Testament of Ann Lee), and Burn Gorman…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":96945,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[71532,71533,156,71534,3129,409,14741,111,139,69,71535],"class_list":{"0":"post-96944","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-movies","8":"tag-brides","9":"tag-burn-gorman","10":"tag-entertainment","11":"tag-harry-lawtey","12":"tag-jodie-turner-smith","13":"tag-movies","14":"tag-neon","15":"tag-new-zealand","16":"tag-newzealand","17":"tag-nz","18":"tag-viola-prettejohn"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/96944","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=96944"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/96944\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/96945"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=96944"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=96944"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=96944"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}