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Kal Penn, Booboo Stewart & Nicole Elizabeth Berger To Lead Underground Chess Thriller ‘Contra’
Kal Penn, Booboo Stewart & Nicole Elizabeth Berger To Lead Underground Chess Thriller ‘Contra’.
Kal Penn, Booboo Stewart, and Nicole Elizabeth BergerGabe Sachs/Courtesy EXCLUSIVE: Kal Penn(Designated Survivor), Booboo Stewart( X-Men: Days of Future Past), and Nicole Elizabeth Berger ( Runt) are attached to headline Contra, the directorial debut of Emmy nominated producer Artisha Mann-Cooper (E yes in the Trees). Production begins in mid-May on the film, based on an original screenplay by chess specialists Jerry Stokes and Ahyende Sandy, with additional writing by Garett Ratcliff and Luke Genton. Sasha Yelaun ( The Old Way), Jeremy O’Keefe ( Eyes in the Trees), Burns Burns ( Sympathy for the Devil) of Wooden Dice Productions, Damon H Chung ( Ai Love You), and Nick Theurer ( The Bay) will produce alongside Ryutaro Sato in a co-production with Overgrown Productions.
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