EXCLUSIVE: MRC is set to finance Good People, Bad Things, a new comedic thriller produced by and starring Emmy and Golden Globe nominee Issa Rae (Insecure).
Written and directed by Scottish filmmaker Ninian Doff (Get Duked!), the film follows an overwhelmed woman (Rae) who gets lost in a seemingly infinite parking garage and soon discovers she is not alone. The project will be Rae’s third with the studio, following Cord Jefferson’s recent Oscar winner American Fiction and Netflix comedy The Lovebirds.
Laura Tunstall and Stephanie Wilcox will produce under their and Doff’s new banner Present Company Inc., along with Rae and Montrel McKay for Hoorae. Hoorae’s Sara Rastogi is exec producing alongside Michelle Craig and Piero Frescobaldi.
Best known for creating and starring in HBO’s Emmy-winning and Golden Globe-nominated comedy Insecure, Rae has most recently been seen starring opposite Emma Corrin and Awkwafina in “Hotel Reverie,” an AI-themed episode from Black Mirror‘s critically acclaimed seventh season. Other recent credits include Barbie and American Fiction. She is repped by CAA, 3 Arts Entertainment, and Hansen, Jacobson, Teller.
Doff made his feature debut with the 2019 dark comedy Get Duked!, which won the Audience Award in the Midnighters section of SXSW before going on to release through Amazon and was nominated for Best Debut Director at the British Independent Film Awards. A prolific music video and commercial director, he was behind The Chemical Brothers’ Grammy-nominated “We’ve Got to Try” and has also developed pilots for 20th Television/Broadway Video and Lionsgate/Point Grey. He is repped by UTA.
Most recently putting out titles like Fair Play, G20 and Saltburn, MRC’s upcoming slate also includes Wuthering Heights — from Saltburn‘s Emerald Fennell — along with titles like The Gallerist and The Only Living Pickpocket in New York.
