EXCLUSIVE: Cheap Doubt‘s Meagan Good is about to direct and government produce a brand new comedy-drama collection, 15 Minutes of Fame, alongside Ricky Bell, member of New Version and lead vocalist of Bell Biv DeVoe, who additionally serves as government producer.
The collection stars Amy Correa Bell and Alexander Piñeiro (Metropolis on Fireplace), who created the challenge and function co-directors.
Set in Los Angeles, 15 Minutes of Fame follows Tony and Jackie, two directionless Latino roommates struggling to outlive maturity whereas dealing with mounting monetary strain. After studying their hire is being raised, the pair embark on a reckless night time out that evokes an impulsive thought of faking a film and seeing who reveals up. What begins as a joke spirals into one thing much more actual and unexpectedly opens the door to Hollywood. As the road between fraud and alternative begins to blur, the collection explores ambition, identification, friendship, and the pursuit of function in an business constructed on phantasm.
“I’m ecstatic to carry 15 Minutes of Fame to audiences at an unprecedented time in historical past, when not solely illustration, however genuine and entertaining tales are so very wanted,” Good instructed Deadline. “And to have the ability to do that alongside household and super skills akin to Amy Correa Bell, Alexander Piñeiro, and Ricky Bell makes this endeavor and collaboration — function work.”
Bell stated, for his half, “What excites me most about 15 Minutes of Fame is that it’s being instructed by way of an genuine lens. It’s a wild journey by way of identification, household, and ambition. Amy Correa Bell and Alexander Piñeiro have introduced their imaginative and prescient, heritage, and lived experiences to the display screen in a approach that feels recent, trustworthy, and deeply relatable, and getting to construct it alongside my longtime buddy Meagan Good makes it much more significant. That is the type of storytelling that shines a light-weight on our group and strikes the tradition ahead.”
Good is represented by Atlas Artists and Gersh; Bell by Major Wave; Correa Bell by Metric Expertise and Ferrari Expertise; and Piñeiro by Genuine Expertise and Eris Expertise.
