Issa Rae is driving toward her next feature project.
The Emmy-nominated actress is set to produce and star in director Ninian Doff’s comedic thriller Good People, Bad Things. MRC is financing the movie that counts Rae’s Hoorae banner and Present Company Inc. as producers.
Good People, Bad Things focuses on Rae as a stressed-out woman who finds herself lost in an apparently infinite parking garage and soon realizes she is not alone. The film marks Rae’s third MRC project following 2020’s The Lovebirds and 2023’s American Fiction.
Doff is helming the movie from his own script. His previous credits include the horror-comedy feature Get Duked! and the Grammy-nominated video for the Chemical Brothers’ “We’ve Got to Try.”
Producers for Good People, Bad Things include Rae, Laura Tunstall, Stephanie Wilcox and Montrel McKay. Executive producing is Sara Rastogi for Hoorae, along with Michelle Craig and Piero Frescobaldi.
Rae created and starred on HBO’s Emmy-winning series Insecure, which ran for five seasons. Her recent credits include Black Mirror, Barbie and a voice role in Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse. She has producing credits on such projects as this year’s Sony comedy One of Them Days.
MRC’s recent films include G20, Saltburn, American Fiction and Fair Play, and the studio is behind such series as Poker Face, Terminal List and Ted. It boasts such forthcoming features as Wuthering Heights with Margot Robbie and Jacob Elordi, The Gallerist and The Only Living Pickpocket in New York.
Rae is represented by CAA and 3 Arts Entertainment. Doff is repped by UTA.
Deadline was first to report on the project.
