EXCLUSIVE: Mason Gooding, Emily Rudd, and Lukas Gage are set to join Lana Condor and Cole Sprouse in New Line’s Max Original feature Moonshot. Chris Winterbauer is attached to direct from a screenplay by Max Taxe. Sprouse’s Riverdale exec producers Greg Berlanti and Sarah Schechter will produce through Berlanti/Schechter Films along with Jill McElroy and Jenna Sarkin of Entertainment 360.
The romantic comedy with a sci-fi twist is set in a future where Mars is terraformed and colonized by the best humanity has to offer. Two very different college students wind up joining forces and sneak onboard a space shuttle to the red planet in order to be united with their significant others.
Mike McGrath of Berlanti/Schechter Films will executive produce alongside Dana Fox. Moonshot is the second feature collaboration between Berlanti/Schechter Films and HBO Max, where they have a four-picture pact, following their Unpregnant released last year. WarnerMedia is also home to Berlanti’s Warner Bros Television deal.
Gooding, known for his breakout role in Booksmart, can currently be seen in Hulu’s Love, Victor which will be returning for a second season on June 11. He will also star in the upcoming installment of Scream out in January 2022 and voiced a character in the upcoming QCODE podcast Electric Easy.
Rudd will soon be seen starring in Netflix’s Fear Street trilogy premiering this summer. Recently, she appeared in Matt Weiner’s anthology series The Romanoffs and Bryan Cranston’s Electric Dreams, both for Amazon, and Dynasty for The CW.
Gage will next be seen this summer in Mike White’s White Lotus for HBO. He is also set to shoot a lead role in the forthcoming Peacock limited series Angelyne from executive producer Sam Esmail and starring Emmy Rossum. In 2019 Lukas appeared as ‘Tyler’ in the hit HBO show Euphoria. As a writer, Gage’s first feature Down Low that he co-wrote with Phoebe Fisher is currently in production for Film Nation with Rightor Doyle set to direct.
Gooding is repped by Gersh, Sugar23 and Sloane Offer. Rudd is repped by Gersh, Management 360 and Jackoway Austen Tyerman. Gage is repped by Anonymous Content, ICM Partners and Goodman, Genow, Schenkman, Smelkinson & Christopher