‘Licorice Pizza’ Breakout Cooper Hoffman to Play Olivia Wilde’s Sexual Muse in ‘I Want Your Sex’ for Black Bear (EXCLUSIVE)
Cooper Hoffman (“Licorice Pizza”) is set to join Olivia Wilde in Gregg Araki’s provocative thriller ‘I Want Your Sex.’
The film features an original script penned by Araki and Karley Sciortino (“Slutever,” “Now Apocalypse”) which blithely explores desire, domination and fantasy, and will go into production in Los Angeles in October.
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When fresh-faced Elliot (Hoffman) lands an exciting job for renowned artist, icon and provocateur Erika Tracy (Wilde), his fantasies come true as Erika taps him to become her sexual muse. But Elliot soon finds himself out of his depth as Erika takes him on a journey more profound than he ever could have imagined, into a world of sex, obsession, power, betrayal and murder.
The film will be produced by Seth Caplan, a past winner of the John Cassavetes Award at the Film Independent Spirit Awards, alongside Araki, Sciortino, and Black Bear’s Teddy Schwarzman and Michael Heimler. John Friedberg, Joanne Roberts Wiles, and Courtney L. Cunniff will serve as executive producers for Black Bear, which will also fully finance the picture and represent international rights.
CAA Media Finance is set to handle U.S. rights. Arlie Day and Mike Page are associate producing and casting the picture.
Black Bear’s recent releases include “Sing Sing,” “Immaculate” and “The Ministry of Ungentlemanly Warfare.” Their upcoming slate includes David Mackenzie’s “Relay,” starring Riz Ahmed and Lily James; Daniel Minahan’s “On Swift Horses,” starring Daisy Edgar-Jones, Jacob Elordi and Will Poulter; and Max Minghella’s “Shell” starring Elizabeth Moss, Kate Hudson, and Kaia Gerber, which will all have their world premiere at TIFF. Additional titles include Guy Ritchie’s “In the Grey” starring Henry Cavill, Jake Gyllenhaal and Eiza Gonzalez; Andrew Patterson’s crime thriller “The Rivals of Amziah King” starring Matthew McConaughey; David Ayer’s “Levon’s Trade” starring Jason Statham; Clint Bentley’s “Train Dreams” starring Joel Edgerton and Felicity Jones; and the Sydney Sweeney-led untitled Christy Martin boxing project from director David Mich?d.
Hoffman is represented by CAA.
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