Eli Morgan Gesner will direct for Caliber Media.
Penn will play the lead role of “Maya”, the youngest in a group of kids who live in a condemned, filthy squat in Manhattan’s Lower East Side with a bunch of crazy degenerate NYC lunatics. The building residents succumb to an infection from their own waste and garbage, inciting a ‘battle royale’ where they all go berserk and try to kill one another.
Sounds gnarly.
Gesner was a professional skateboarder as a teenager before being hired by Russell Simmons as one of the original clothing designers at the inception of Phat Farm. Gesner went on to co-create his own label Zoo York with Rodney Smith and Adam Schatz, and served as design director for over ten years. Gesner later worked as Creative Consultant on HBO’s HOW TO MAKE IT IN AMERICA, which creator Ian Edelman has hinted at the show being inspired by Gesner’s life.
Penn is the daughter of Sean Penn and Robin Wright.
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