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\n\tDylan O\u2019Brien (Send Help<\/em>) is set to star in James Morosini\u2019s erotic thriller Bulls<\/em>, alongside Lewis Pullman (Thunderbolts*<\/em>) and Kaia Gerber (Bottoms<\/em>), we can reveal.<\/p>\n \n\tYvette Zhuang and Zach Glueck, co-CEOs of Manifest Pictures, are launching the project ahead of the Cannes market.<\/p>\n \n\tWritten and directed by Morosini, a SXSW winner for I Love My Dad<\/em>, the film is being financed and produced by QC Entertainment (Get Out<\/em>). Roth\/Kirschenbaum Films (Fast X<\/em>), producers of Sony Pictures\u2019 box office hit Anyone But You<\/em>, is producing.<\/p>\n \n\tManifest Pictures is handling international rights. CAA Media Finance, WME Independent and QC Entertainment will co-rep domestic sales. Shooting is set to get underway before the end of the year.<\/p>\n \n\tBulls<\/em> will follow Danny (O\u2019Brien), \u201ca man who has spent thirty years apologizing for existing. With his relationship cracking, he books a last-ditch trip to a hedonistic island resort, hoping to come back as someone his girlfriend can finally believe in. But his lonely escape detonates when a hookup with Ava, a married woman (Gerber), puts him on a collision course with her alpha male husband Marco (Pullman).<\/p>\n \n\t\u201cAs Danny is drawn deeper into Ava\u2019s dangerous and intoxicating world of sex, power, and psychological games he quickly realizes getting caught by Marco is only the beginning.\u201d<\/p>\n \n\tMorosini, who was most recently enlisted to write and EP a forthcoming adaptation of his Black List horror script Mommy\u2019s Home<\/em> for Lionsgate. Universal also picked up Morosini\u2019s elevated comedy spec Inner Child<\/em>, with the project being adapted for the Lego universe. As an actor, he most recently starred in It\u2019s What\u2019s Inside<\/em>, which premiered at the 2024 Sundance Film Festival and sold to Netflix in a $17M deall.<\/p>\n \n\tQC Entertainment partners Sean McKittrick, Raymond Mansfield and Edward H. Hamm Jr. said: \u201cWe\u2019ve been looking for the right opportunity to collaborate with James for some time. He brings a bold, fearless sensibility to character and tension, and Bulls immediately stood out as a project with both strong commercial potential and a singular creative voice. We\u2019re excited to finance and produce the film and help bring James\u2019 vision to audiences.\u201d<\/p>\n \n\t\u201cJames Morosini has crafted a provocative and unpredictable thriller that demands your attention. It demanded ours from page one! Elevated, yet crowd pleasing \u2013 and with this stellar cast \u2013 it\u2019s a film we know will stick with audiences and create conversation,\u201d commented Zack Roth of Roth\/Kirschenbaum.<\/p>\n \n\tMorosini added: \u201cI wrote Bulls because it\u2019s the type of film I would cancel my plans to go see in cinemas. It\u2019s mischievous, twisty, turn-y, and most of all it\u2019s sexy.\u201d<\/p>\n \n\t\u201cJames has crafted a loud, transgressive erotic thriller that speaks directly to today\u2019s theatrical audience\u2014one that\u2019s embraced provocative hits from Wuthering Heights<\/em> and The<\/em> White Lotus<\/em> to Saltburn<\/em> and The Housemaid<\/em>,\u201d noted Zhuang and Glueck of Manifest Pictures. \u201cWith his sharp, distinctive voice and an incredible next-gen cast, Bulls will have audiences gasping, laughing, screaming and talking long after the credits roll.\u201d<\/p>\n \n\tO\u2019Brien is repped by WME, Principal Entertainment LA, and Lichter, Grossman; Gerber is repped by CAA, Entertainment 360, and Sloane, Offer; Pullman is repped by CAA and Anonymous Content. Morosini is repped by CAA, Range Media Partners, and Goodman, Genow.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n