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Issa Rae collaborates with LaLa Anthony, Angelica Nwandu, and Thembi Banks for Horror-Comedy

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There’s something scary going on in ‘The Shade Room.’ Issa Rae and LaLa Anthony are executive producing an upcoming horror comedy for Universal Pictures called Juju. 

Issa Rae’s partner Deniese Davis will also help produce Juju, with HooRae’s SVP Development Sara Rastogi.

Writer, producer, and director, Thembi Banks, who has been a director on Rae’s Insecure, Frankie Shaw’s SMILF and a Sundance alum, will be making her directorial debut in the film.

The movie picture will be based on an original concept by Angelica Nwandu, the founder of Instagram-based page, The Shade Room, and a Sundance fellow, who will write the script. This is not  Nwandu’s first time writing. She wrote the 2018 movie Night Comes On.

Nwandu previously told Marie Claire in 2019, “I’m OK with [recognition] as long as it’s related to business and talent—if it’s about my writing and my business, that’s fine—but I don’t want it to be about my personality on the red carpet,” 

An official release date for ‘Juju’ has not been released yet. However, with the talent behind this project, ‘Juju’ will be a must watch.

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