Madelaine Petsch and Gavin Casalegno will star within the upcoming younger grownup romance Chasing Crimson, based mostly on the Wattpad webnovel by Isabelle Ronin.
Mackenzie Munro will direct from a screenplay by Lauren Schacher, with Greg Silverman and Grant Torre of Stampede Ventures producing along with David Madden and Jason Goldberg of Webtoon Productions.
Petsch will play Veronica, a straight-A scholar decided to not fall for faculty heartthrob Caleb (Casalegno) and grow to be his subsequent conquest, even after an opportunity encounter sparks an plain attraction between the 2 of them. However on the run from a painful previous and with nowhere to go, Veronica finally ends up transferring into Caleb’s residence. As the 2 develop nearer, secrets and techniques start to unravel, within the phrases of the promotional blurb, “love and betrayal collide on this addictive, slow-burn romance.”
Mister Smith Leisure is dealing with worldwide gross sales for the undertaking and has closed offers for a lot of the world, with Amazon Prime Video taking the movie for the U.Okay., Canada, Australia/New Zealand, France and Benelux; Capelight buying Germany; Leone Movie Group taking Italian rights; Solar/Diamond dealing with Latin America, Spain, Portugal and South Africa; and Svensk taking the movie for Scandinavia amongst different offers.
Wattpad is the web writer of Anna Todd’s After collection, which was changed into a five-film franchise that grossed $168 million globally. Chasing Crimson is the platform’s second most-read English-language title, with 261 million on-line reads. The story has been tailored right into a Webtoon webcomic with 24 million views and revealed as each a print novel by Sourcebooks and a graphic novel by Webtoon Unscrolled.
Petsch, best-known for her breakout function as Cheryl Blossom on CW collection Riverdale, produced and starred within the Amazon romantic comedy Upkeep Required, alongside Jacob Scipio. She seems in Lionsgate’s The Strangers, a three-film reboot of the psychological horror franchise, directed by Renny Harlin, with The Strangers: Chapter 3 set for launch subsequent 12 months. She not too long ago wrapped Killer Movies’ Fairly Infants, from director Tyler-Marie Evans.
Casalegno stars as Jeremiah Fisher on Amazon Prime Video’s hit collection The Summer time I Turned Fairly, based mostly on Jenny Han’s bestselling novels. He’ll subsequent seem alongside Kathryn Newton and Lana Condor within the Jeff Wadlow-directed thriller The Satan’s Mouth for Amazon MGM.
Munro beforehand directed Wattpad’s independently financed romantic comedy Boot Camp (2024), and the 2021 characteristic Salvation.
Petsch is represented by CAA, Mosaic, The Lede Firm and Goodman, Genow, Schenkman, Smelkinson & Christopher. Casalegno is represented by Daring Company, UTA, Luber Roklin Leisure, Imaginative and prescient PR and Skrzyniarz & Mallean. Munro is represented by Sugar23 and Goodman, Genow, Schenkman, Smelkinson + Christopher LLP.