Natasha Lyonne has set her subsequent characteristic movie. The previous Poker Face star will write and direct Bambo, which is about within the ’80s and follows a Brooklyn-born boxing-promoter father as he tries and fails to turn out to be the subsequent Don King, and “takes his child daughter alongside for the hurly burly experience of tax evasion, cocaine, race automobiles, misplaced desires and heartbreak.”
Lyonne is producing by her Animal Footage banner with Max Ferguson alongside Craig Mazin for Phrase Video games and Sarah Sarandos. Principal images is about to start in the summertime of 2026.
Bambo is the second characteristic movie from Lyonne. Earlier this 12 months, Lyonne introduced she might be making her characteristic directorial debut with the AI movie Uncanny Valley. Produced by Asteria Movie Co., the hybrid AI studio Lyonne co-founded, Uncanny Valley might be set on this planet of immersive video video games and can mix live-action and recreation parts whereas centering on a teenage lady who turns into unmoored by a massively in style AR online game in a parallel current. Lyonne and Brit Marling are teaming as co-writers on the characteristic with Jaron Lanier.
Lyonne’s movie slate follows the newer information that she’s going to now not be starring in Poker Face. Peacock shock canceled the Lyonne-led murder-of-the-week collection after two seasons, however creator Rian Johnson has been procuring the present with Recreation of Thrones star Peter Dinklage as the brand new lead actor, changing Lyonne as starring detective Charlie Cale. HBO and HBO Max chairman and CEO Casey Bloys mentioned his community was “curious” about doubtlessly saving Poker Face after the cancellation, however had nothing official to report.
Lyonne lately co-founded The Creators Coalition on AI (CCAI). Eighteen business insiders, together with Lyonne, banded collectively to launch the first-of-its-kind enterprise spearheaded by Daniel Kwan and Jonathan Wang that hopes to behave as a central coordinating hub to improve business methods and establishments about how AI is impacting all industries. The group is backed by 500-plus signatories.
Lyonne was nominated for each a 2026 Critics Alternative award and Golden Globe award for her starring function on Poker Face. She co-created the three-time Emmy successful Netflix collection Russian Doll, on which she starred, wrote, produced, showran and directed. She additionally starred on Netflix’s Emmy-winning Orange Is the New Black for seven years. She can even star on the upcoming third season of Euphoria; particulars of her function have but to be revealed.
Her subsequent initiatives additionally embrace co-creating and co-starring in Sky’s retro comedy Pressure & Majeure alongside Matt Berry; starring in Taika Waititi’s adaptation of Kazuo Ishiguro’s Klara and the Solar; starring in and producing the difference of Ana Lily Amirpour’s Basketfull of Heads; and starring within the Netflix comedy Roommates, produced by Joyful Madison Productions. Lyonne additionally has a narrative by credit score alongside Joe and Kieran Fitzgerald and a producing credit score on the upcoming Joseph Gordon-Levitt Directed AI thriller for Netflix from T-Road Productions.
Lyonne is repped by Untitled Leisure and CAA, and attorneys James Adams and Scott Winston.
Phrase Video games, based by Mazin, has an unique tv growth take care of HBO and has produced hit collection Chernobyl and The Final of Us.