After honing her writing and producing expertise on Excessive Constancy, Zoë Kravitz is able to make the leap to directing along with her subsequent movie: Blink Twice (beforehand titled Pussy Island), which can hit theaters on August 23, and stars Channing Tatum as Slater King, a billionaire tech mogul.

Described as a style thriller, Kravitz’s characteristic directorial debut will comply with a cocktail waitress in Los Angeles named Frida (Naomi Ackie) who catches King’s eye at a fundraising gala and is swiftly invited to affix him and his associates on a dreamy vacation on his personal island. “It’s paradise,” reads the log line. “Wild nights mix into sun-soaked days and everybody’s having a good time. Nobody desires this journey to finish, however as unusual issues begin to occur, Frida begins to query her actuality. There’s something fallacious with this place. She’ll need to uncover the reality if she desires to make it out of this social gathering alive.”

“I began scripting this story in 2017,” Kravitz instructed Deadline in 2021, of the script she has co-authored with E.T. Feigenbaum. “As a girl basically, and a girl on this trade, I’ve skilled some fairly wild conduct from the alternative intercourse. The [original] title [of the film] was form of a joke at first, this place the place folks would go, convey ladies, social gathering, and hang around. The story developed into one thing else, however the title wound up having a number of meanings. And it alludes to this time and place we declare to not be in anymore, when it comes to sexual politics. Individuals are evolving and altering however there may be nonetheless a foul style in lots of people’s mouths from previous conduct.”

Additionally as a consequence of make an look as we enter King’s champagne-fueled, high-flying world? A starry supporting forged which incorporates Geena Davis, Kyle MacLachlan, Alia Shawkat, Christian Slater, Simon Rex, Adria Arjona, and Haley Joel Osment. We are able to hardly wait.