Actors Gina Gershon, Katherine Waddell, Ethan Slater and Jesse James Keitel are set to star in The Designer. Expected to be a body horror film, the upcoming feature will be directed by Em Johnson.
According to the storyline, the film centres on Gerry (Waddell), whose need for an identity pushes her to join the massive multi-level marketing company, Kismetta, opening her up to a world of chaos that succumbs her to her own delusional reality.
Apart from the above-mentioned actors, Michelle Hurd, Annie Golden, Jessica Belkin and Gwendoline Yeo form the supporting cast of the film.
The film is produced by Jiarui Guo, Warner Davis, and Waddell. Yuchuan Cao is serving as co-producer.
Gershon is now playing the lead role in Eli Roth's Borderlands, a Lionsgate version of the popular computer game. She also starred in the critically praised Aubrey Plaza thriller Emily the Criminal and Roth's horror blockbuster Thanksgiving over the past several years, in addition to television shows like Awkwafina Is Nora from Queens and New Amsterdam.
In addition to working with Johnson on her first feature film, Balloon Animal, Waddell has already been involved in a number of notable Sundance dramas, including Adam Rehmeier's Dinner in America.
Slater has an impressive theatrical career, having received nominations for Drama Desk, Outer Critics Circle, and the Tony Award. He will next be seen playing Boq, the Munchkinlander buddy of Elphaba (Cynthia Erivo) and Galinda (Ariana Grande) in Universal's two-part adaption of the hit musical Wicked.
