EXCLUSIVE: Emmy Rossum (The Crowded Room), Michael Imperioli (Memory of a Killer), Ariana Greenblatt (Now You See Me: Now You Don’t), and Rosemarie DeWitt (Untamed) are among those set to star opposite Grace Van Patten in Rubber Hut, the debut feature of Hanna Gray Organschi, which we scooped in March.
Character details are being kept under wraps, with production underway in Rhode Island. Other new additions to the cast include Chris Bauer (His & Hers), Fina Strazza (John Proctor Is the Villain), Fisher Stevens (Succession), and Ricky Staffieri (The Bear).
Set in 1992 Rhode Island, Rubber Hut follows an entrepreneurial ex-Pan Am stewardess who opens a drive-thru condom kiosk in her Italian Catholic town. Overnight, Emanuella (Van Patten) becomes a lightning rod in the community, a hero to local teens and an unlikely threat to her tight-knit community.
Rubber Hut is produced by Elizabeth Woodward for Willa (The Voice of Hind Rajab, The Fence), Tara Sheffer for Stone Fruit Productions (A Lien), and Gray Organschi’s Unlikeable Woman Productions, in association with Desmar, The Godmother, Shortwave, and Madhouse Films. Exec producers are Anne Carey, Jason Michael Berman, Mari Nakachi, Ahmed Ezz, D.D. Wigley, Naomi Despres, Michèle Marshall, Charlie Traisman, Katherine Romans, Heather Feshbach, and Andrea Ajemian. Andrew Alexander, Mark Hollinger, Alexandra Kordas, Meryl Metni, Monika Parekh, Lisa and Matt Sonsini are co-EPs on the film cast by Matthew Glasner CSA.
Participating in all three Sundance Institute Labs — Screenwriters, Directors, and Producers — Rubber Hut was also selected for the Film Independent Fast Track, NYU Purple List, and Gotham Week Project Market, among other showcases.
A Golden Globe nominee best known for her nine-season run as Fiona Gallagher on Showtime’s Shameless, Rossum most recently appeared in Apple TV’s The Crowded Room and will next star in and exec produce the Hulu series Furious, written by Liz Meriwether. She is repped by WME, Mgmt Entertainment, and McKuin Frankel Whitehead.
Imperioli was recently seen starring alongside Hugh Jackman and Kate Hudson in Song Sung Blue an can currently be seen in Fox’s series Memory of a Killer opposite Patrick Dempsey. Upcoming, he has Ben Shirinian’s The Housewife, where he stars opposite Naomie Watts and Tye Sheridan. He is repped by Gersh and Anonymous Content.
Coming off the Lionsgate threequel Now You See Me: Now You Don’t — joining legacy cast Jesse Eisenberg, Woody Harrelson, Dave Franco and Isla Fisher — Greenblatt’s also known for her work in projects like Barbie, Fear Street: Prom Queen, and Borderlands. She is repped by CAA, Untitled, and Jackoway Austen Tyerman.
For DeWitt, recent projects include Netflix’s limited series Untamed, opposite Eric Bana, and the third and final season of the Sex and the City revival And Just Like That… She’ll next be seen starring alongside Andy Garcia in his latest directorial feature, Diamond, which premiered at this year’s Cannes Film Festival. She is repped by CAA, Mgmt Entertainment, and Hansen, Jacobson, Teller.
Bauer is repped by Buchwald, Framework Entertainment, and Schreck Rose Dapello; Strazza by Paradigm, Mara Entertainment, and Jackoway Austen Tyerman; Stevens by WME, Untitled, and Gang, Tyre, Ramer; and Staffieri by IAG, Brillstein Entertainment Partners, and Jackoway Austen Tyerman.