Osgood Perkins to shoot The Young People with Tung and Parker

Director Osgood Perkins will return to the horror genre this fall to shoot The Young People, a new film he wrote that will star Lola Tung and Nico Parker, the studio announced Thursday. Production is set to begin in Vancouver this fall, with Neon cofinancing the project alongside Lyrical Media. Neon will handle the film's U.S. theatrical release and will represent international sales when it begins screening the project for buyers at the Toronto Film Festival next week.

Perkins is directing from his own script and will produce the film with his producing partner Chris Ferguson under their Phobos banner, alongside Brian Kavanaugh-Jones. The Young People is the first project to move forward under the first-look deal Perkins and Ferguson struck with Neon in May. The arrangement makes Neon the home for Perkins's projects and allows the filmmakers to produce other directors' movies for the company, studio representatives said.

Concrete plot details have largely been kept under wraps by the filmmakers, but one published report offered a brief summary, saying the story centers on a high school girl named Sue who befriends a new classmate, Kitty, and that the relationship gradually...