Alexandra Grey, Jeremy Luke Set For Writer-Director Paul Tully’s Indie Film ‘Replica’
Deadline reports that Alexandra Grey (MacGyver) and Jeremy Luke (Don Jon) are set to star in movie Replica, written and directed by Paul Tully. Due to start filming in Los Angeles this month, the cast also includes Mickey Rourke (The Wrestler), Nicholas Turturro (BlacKkKlansman), Noel Gugliemi (The Fast & The Furious), Naomi Grossman (American Horror Story), Kirby Bliss Blanton (Project X), Alexander James Rodriguez (Missing Link) and Leila Almas Rose (Gotham).
Pic will follow Tonya (Grey), an African American trans woman who has journeyed cross-country from her small Mississippi hometown to California in pursuit of her dream to be an actress. While en route to Los Angeles, she accidentally gets stranded in the suburbs of Los Angeles and becomes engulfed in a gritty world after being introduced to Mickey (Luke), a neo Nazi low-level meth dealer. But to both of their surprise, they begin falling in love just as they find themselves the prey of some ruthless drug dealers.
Rose also serves as producer alongside Jaime Zevallos, Brian Metcalf, Freddy Giorlando, and Ryan Olson, with Micaiah Robnett as executive producer, in association with Elusive Tiger.