Nasim Pedrad, Jason Mitchell, Danielle Brooks To Star In Netflix Rom-Com ‘Desperados’Posted by Wilson Morales
November 13, 2018
Source: Collider
Collider is reporting that Nasim Pedrad (“SNL”), Jason Mitchell (“Mudbound”) and Danielle Brooks (“Orange Is the New Black”) are in talks to star in Netflix’s romantic comedy “Desperados”.
Lauren Palmigiano will direct from a script by Ellen Rapoport with filming to begin early next year in Mexico.
Pedrad will play a neurotic woman who takes her friends (including Brooks) to Mexico to thwart a hateful e-mail she accidentally sent to her new, perfect near-boyfriend. During her trip, she keeps running into a terrible recent blind date (Mitchell) who maybe isn’t so terrible after all.
Pedrad will next be seen in Disney’s live-action Aladdin movie, and she has also wrapped Patrick Brice’s horror-comedy Corporate Animals, which stars Ed Helms and Demi Moore. In addition to SNL, Pedrad’s TV credits include New Girl, Scream Queens and Mulaney.
Mitchell will next be seen in Sebastian Silva‘s movie Tyrel. Mitchell is currently filming A24’s stripper saga Zola, and he also stars on the Showtime series The Chi. His previous film credits include his breakout turn as Eazy-E in F. Gary Gray’s Straight Outta Compton, Kathryn Bigelow‘s Detroit, Kong: Skull Island, Dee Rees‘ Mudbound, and more recently SuperFly.
Brooks plays Taystee on Netflix’s Orange Is the New Black and she can currently be seen in the indie drama Sadie. Brooks also wrapped the indie movie Clemency with Alfre Woodard as well as the drama All the Little Things We Kill. She’ll also star alongside Anna Kendrick in a new comedy from Four Lions.
