{"id":613882,"date":"2026-04-29T20:21:08","date_gmt":"2026-04-29T20:21:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/613882\/"},"modified":"2026-04-29T20:21:08","modified_gmt":"2026-04-29T20:21:08","slug":"keke-palmer-zack-gottsagen-starring-in-lottery-for-searchlight","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/613882\/","title":{"rendered":"Keke Palmer & Zack Gottsagen Starring In ‘Lottery’ For Searchlight"},"content":{"rendered":"

\n\tEXCLUSIVE: Searchlight is in development on Lottery<\/a>, a Permut Presentations drama about a young man with Down syndrome who, after winning the lottery, flees his estranged mother and hits the road with a charming new friend who has ulterior motives of her own.<\/p>\n

\n\tTwo-time Primetime Emmy winner Keke Palmer<\/a> stars with The Peanut Butter Falcon\u2018s Zack Gottsagen<\/a>. Diary of a Wimpy Kid filmmaker Thor Freudenthal<\/a> directs off a screenplay by Alexis C. Jolly (Baby Monster, Belly of the Beast).<\/p>\n

\n\tProducers are Hacksaw Ridge Best Picture Oscar nominated David Permut\u00a0for Permut Presentations,\u00a0Jen Dana\u00a0for 3311,\u00a0and Dan Crown\u00a0for Red Crown.\u00a0Permut\u2019s recent film out of Sundance, Olivia Wilde\u2019s The Invite, starring Wilde, Seth Rogen, Penelope Cruz and Edward Norton, sold to A24 in a fierce bidding war for $10M+ as Deadline first reported<\/a>.<\/p>\n

\n\tRELATED: A24\u2019s Big Sundance Acquisition \u2018The Invite\u2019 From Olivia Wilde Sets Summer Release<\/a><\/p>\n

\n\tCo-producers are\u00a0Alex Astrachan\u00a0for Permut Presentations and Yoni Liebling\u00a0for Red Crown. EPs are Keke Palmer and Sharon Palmer. <\/p>\n

\n\tOverseeing the project at Searchlight is production executive\u00a0Apolline Berty, who reports into\u00a0Co-Heads of Film Production & Development\u00a0DanTram Nguyen\u00a0and\u00a0Katie Goodson-Thomas.<\/p>\n

\n\tPalmer won Emmys for Outstanding Host of a Game Show for Password in 2023 as well as Outstanding Actress in a Short-form Comedy or Drama series for Turnt Up with the Taylors. She\u2019s also a New York Times bestselling author and was honored with the 2025 NAACP Image Award for Entertainer of the Year. Feature headlining roles include One of Them Days, Jordan Peele\u2019s blockbuster\u00a0Nope,\u00a0Hustlers, Good Fortune, The Pickup and the upcoming Neon summer comedy I Love Boosters from Boots Riley. Palmer hosts the podcast Baby, This Is Keke Palmer. She can now be seen on Peacock\u2019s The \u2018Burbs. Palmer is repped by 3 Arts Entertainment, and Hertz Lichtenstein Young & Polk.<\/p>\n

\n\tRELATED: \u2018I Love Boosters\u2019 Cast On Entering The \u201cWhimsical\u201d World Of Boots Riley For Critique Of Capitalism & Culture Vultures \u2014 SXSW Studio<\/a><\/p>\n

\n\tGottsagen broke out in the critically acclaimed and award-winning 2019 feature\u00a0The Peanut Butter Falcon opposite Dakota Johnson and Shia LaBeouf. The actor was honored with the Palm Springs International Film Festival Rising Star Award for his turn in that pic. Other feature film roles include\u00a0God Save the Queens, At Last\u00a0and\u00a0Night Always Comes. Gottsagen is repped by Worldwide Artists Group and Advanced Management.<\/p>\n

\n\tGermany-born Freudenthal\u2019s directing film credits also include\u00a0Percy Jackson: Sea of Monsters and\u00a0Words on Bathroom Walls. In television, he has directed pilots for series including Carnival Row, La Brea, Quantum Leap and\u00a0The Hunting Party\u00a0\u2014\u00a0which he went on to direct four\u00a0episodes of, also executive producing on 14.\u00a0\u00a0He has also directed episodes of\u00a0The Expanse, Arrow and The Bondsman. He is represented by Gersh, Gotham Group and Eclipse Law.<\/p>\n

\n\tJolly currently has projects in development with Amazon Studios, FX, and more. His script\u00a0A Beautiful Day in the Neighborhood\u00a0appeared on the 2013 Black List. The scribe is repped by CAA, Writ Large and Lichter Grossman Nichols.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"EXCLUSIVE: Searchlight is in development on Lottery, a Permut Presentations drama about a young man with Down syndrome…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":613883,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[57],"tags":[236,88,3360,24662,73016,266548,266549],"class_list":["post-613882","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-celebrities","tag-celebrities","tag-entertainment","tag-keke-palmer","tag-lottery","tag-searchlight-pictures","tag-thor-freudenthal","tag-zack-gottsagen"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/613882","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=613882"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/613882\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/613883"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=613882"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=613882"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=613882"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}