Oscar nominee. Culinary pupil. Singer, songwriter, choreographer, dancer. The checklist goes on and on, however Teyana Taylor will quickly add one other bullet to her already-enviable resume: characteristic filmmaker. Paramount Footage introduced right this moment that the “One Battle After One other” nominee’s first characteristic directorial outing will arrive in theaters on April 9, 2027.
The venture, often known as “Get Lite,” was first introduced in 2024with the information that “A Wrinkle in Time” and “Euphoria” actress Storm Reid would co-star within the upcoming movie.
Primarily based on right this moment’s announcement, it seems that Taylor remains to be in search of a male lead for the movie, which is formally billed because the story of “a gifted, however sheltered, dance pupil (who) finds inspiration, love, and household within the final place he anticipated: the subways of New York Metropolis.”
The movie shall be produced by Kenya Barris, Anni Weisband (Khalabo Ink Society), Reid, Robyn Simpson (A Seed & Wings Productions), and Invoice Karesh (OFFBRND), with Taylor additionally serving as govt producer.
The multi-talented Taylor has a protracted historical past of directing her personal music movies through her all-female music manufacturing firm The Aunties, launched in 2017. With “Get Lite,” she’s additional tapping into her roots, embracing a narrative that recollects her time additionally working as a choreographer and dancer, courting again to the beginning of her music profession in 2010.
In 2024, she additional expounded on her artistic needs in an interview with IndieWire. “I’m even in an area the place I’m ensuring the roles that I take are roles which can be going to permit me to maintain pushing my vary and to proceed to work towards being a greater model of every thing than I’m,” she mentioned. “So, for me, I don’t need to take something that’s too simple. I need to tackle the problem and additional myself.”
Paramount right this moment additionally introduced dates for 3 different upcoming movies on its slate: Jonathan Levine’s David Corenswet-starring “Untitled John Tuggle Movie” (beforehand often known as “Mr. Irrelevant”) is ready for December 25, 2026; Potsy Ponciroli’s modern-day Western “The Rescue” shall be launched on January 29, 2027; and an untitled “Paramount Horror Occasion Movie” will come out on July 16, 2027 (no different particulars, together with director or forged, had been shared).