Bottoms is an upcoming American teen sex comedy film directed by Emma Seligman from a screenplay by Seligman and Rachel Sennott, who also stars opposite Ayo Edebiri. The film is being produced by Elizabeth Banks and her production company Brownstone Productions and will be distributed by Orion Pictures through United Artists Releasing in the United States.
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| Directed by | Emma Seligman |
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| Cinematography | Maria Rusche |
| Edited by | Hanna Park |
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| Distributed by | United Artists Releasing |
| Country | United States |
| Language | English |
Two high school senior girls set up a "fight club" to hook up with cheerleaders before graduation.[1]
In April 2021 it was announced that Seligman and Sennott were working with Orion Pictures and Brownstone Productions with Elizabeth Banks and Max Handelman, and Alison Small producing for Brownstone, with Alana Mayo for Orion. It is the second collaboration between Seligman and Sennott after 2020’s Shiva Baby.[2] Whilst promoting that film Seligman described her next project as a "campy queer high school comedy in the vein of Wet Hot American Summer but more for a Gen-Z queer audience."[3]: 39:07–39:45 In April 2022, it was announced that Ayo Edebiri, Marshawn Lynch, Ruby Cruz, Havana Rose Liu, Kaia Gerber, Nicholas Galitzine, Miles Fowler, Dagmara Dominczyk and Punkie Johnson were added to the cast.[4][5] Filming was scheduled to take place in New Orleans between April 18 and May 27, 2022.[6] On September 12, 2022 it was confirmed by The New York Times that filming had wrapped and Sennott described the film as “two girls in a classic American football town who start a fight club under the guise of female empowerment, but it’s actually so they can have sex with cheerleaders.”[7]
Bottoms is expected to be released in 2023.