Diablo Cody Producing Meredith Alloway’s ‘Forbidden Fruits’

EXCLUSIVE: Oscar profitable Juno scribe Diablo Cody is producing the characteristic directorial debut of Meredith Alloway, Forbidden Fruits.

Alloway is co-adapting the characteristic with playwright Lily Hougton off the latter’s play Of the Ladies Got here the Starting of Sin, and By means of Her We All Die.

The initiatives follows Free Eden worker Apple, who secretly runs a witchy femme cult within the basement of the mall retailer after hours – with fellow fruits Cherry and Fig. However when new rent Pumpkin challenges their “lady boss” methods, the ladies are compelled to face their very own poisons or succumb to a bloody destiny.

Cody, Mason Novick, Trent Hubbard and Mary Anne Waterhouse are set to provide the characteristic, by way of Novick’s MXN Leisure banner. 

EPs are Charlie Traisman and Katherine Romans from Madhouse Movies alongside Casey Durant and Rachel Douglas from Vary. WME Unbiased shall be dealing with gross sales for the venture.

“Forbidden Fruits grabbed me by the neck the very first time I learn it,” Cody tells Deadline. “It’s one of many craziest, most artistic, fantastically bonkers initiatives I’ve ever labored on. I really feel so fortunate to be collaborating with Meredith and Lily, who’ve turn into heroes of mine briefly order.”

Alloway is a New York-based filmmaker whose brief movie Deep Tissue screened internationally after premiering at SXSW. She partnered with Hulu, Sundance Institute, and twentieth Century Digital Studios on her subsequent brief movies Experience and First Date. Alloway has numerous characteristic movies that she wrote and can direct in growth, together with Excessive Priestess with David S. Goyer’s firm Phantom 4 and Physique Rely with MXN and R.Ok. Movies (Anybody However You). As a journalist, Meredith has written interviews and have items for publications reminiscent of Vainness Honest, Playboy, Filmmaker Journal, Nylon, and Indiewire.

Houghton is an award-winning playwright born and raised in Manhattan. She has a number of TV collection in growth with Elliot Web page’s Web page Boy Productions, Norman Reedus’ Huge Bald Head Movies, Blake Full of life’s B For Effort and a number of initiatives with Gia Coppola hooked up to direct. On the characteristic aspect, Houghton lately tailored the novel Aggressive Grieving by Nora Zelevansky for Belletrist and Rebelle Media. Her performs have been produced/developed at MCC Theater Firm, Atlantic Theater Firm, The Flea Theater, EST/Youngblood, NYU, Seattle Repertory Theater, Regular Ave, Yale, Modern American Theater Pageant and Jermyn Avenue Theatre in London. She has gained the 2023 American Playwriting Basis Relentless Award, two Sloan Basis Science Grants, the Elizabeth George Grant and was the recipient of the 2019 Launch Fee from the Atlantic Theater Firm. She is a member of the Obie profitable Youngblood at EST. 

Alloway is repped by WME, Linden Leisure & Jackoway Austen. Houghton is repped by UTA, Linden Leisure & Jackoway Austen. Cody is repped by WME, MXN Leisure and McKuin Frankel.