Cast members, including a pop star, have been announced for an indie sci-fi film that has begun production in Canada, according to The Hollywood Reporter.
Directed by Javier Badillo and co-written by Badillo and Nat Marshik, Lupe Q and the Galactic Earworms follows the teenage head of a Latinx punk rock band who discovers that her vocal screams have the power to stop an invasion from two warring alien races that have Earth in their crosshairs.
The comedy’s cast will include musician Bif Naked, Pamela Carolina Martinez, Joshua Odjick, Andreas Apergis, Lee Majdoub, and others. The project is feature version of Badillo and Marshik’s proof-of-concept short, Lupe Q and the Galactic Corn Cake, which is currently playing on the festival circuit.
Badillo expressed his excitement for the project, saying,
Punk rock. Creepy space aliens. Young romance. It’s the underdog-buddy-comedy-space opera I’ve been waiting to write ever since I was an angsty Latin American kid shrieking into a mic and cranking my guitar amp to 11.
Lupe Q and the Galactic Earworms is produced by Badillo, Martin Cadieux-Rouillard, Maya Cadieux-Rouillard, Michael Parker, and Shan Tam, with Paul Cadieux, Maryse Rouillard, and Kelly White serving as executive producers. Production companies Spitshine Flicks, Holiday Pictures, and Filmoption Productions will release the film in Canada and handle its foreign sales distribution at this year’s Toronto International Film Festival.
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