Leah McKendrick to Write, Direct and Star in “Ferociously Female” Pop-Singer Thriller ‘Delulu’
Leah McKendrick will write, direct and star alongside Maddie Ziegler in the “ferociously female” pop-singer thriller she ‘Delulu’.
The pop-singer horror craze isn’t done singing yet.
Deadline reports that Leah McKendrick (pictured above in M.F.A.) is set to write, direct, and star in Delulu alongside Maddie Ziegler (Pretty Lethal) for XYZ Films and Temple Hill.
McKendrick “will play a washed-up millennial pop singer who kidnaps a rising Gen Z influencer (Ziegler) and makes one deranged demand: get her a million followers in two weeks or die.”
I’m reminded of someone who once said, “I don’t need friends. I need fans”.
Scream IV predicted a world driven mad by social media. All these years later, and we still haven’t changed. If anything, it’s only gotten worse. Hence, movies like Delulu.
The outlet notes that the film has been described as a “bloody showdown about fame, envy and the strange intimacy of girlhood”. Music to our ears.
Said McKendrick, “I have been a die-hard fan of Maddie since she was a little girl dancing her heart out on our TV screens – and I’m beyond blown away by the multifaceted artist she has grown into. I’m fired up to watch her devour a role that demands every color of her insane talent. ”