Matt Donnelly Senior Film WriterJesse Eisenberg, Adrien Brody, and Riley Keough have been cast in director John Trengrove’s English-language feature debut “Manodrome.”Launching sales at the virtual Cannes market, the South African director of “The Wound” presents a nihilistic thriller following Ralphie (Eisenberg), an Uber driver and aspiring bodybuilder who is inducted into a libertarian masculinity cult and loses his grip on reality when his repressed desires are awakened.Keough, Gina Gammell, and Ryan Zacarias are producing the project via Felix Culpa, with Ben Giladi’s Rainmaker Entertainment.
CAA Media Finance has arranged financing and will sell the film’s domestic rights.An Oscar nominee for “The Social Network,” Eisenberg’s credits.
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