Adeline Rudolph, Arden Cho to Headline K-Pop Thriller ‘Perfect Girl’
Adeline Rudolph (Mortal Kombat 2) and Arden Cho (Partner Track, Avatar: The Last Airbender) have been cast as the leads in Perfect Girl, a psychological thriller from director Hong Won-ki and Badlands, the genre label set up last year by John Wick producers Basil Iwanyk and Erica Lee’s Thunder Road and longtime Screen Gems executive Scott Strauss.
Based on the 2023 Black List script Unnie by Lynn Q. Yu, Perfect Girl is set in the high-stakes world of K-pop. Described as Scream meets Black Swan, the story follows a group of trainees competing for four coveted spots in a new supergroup. When a talented and mysterious new girl is introduced to the casting competition at the last minute, things start to get strange: Girls are being hunted and attacked one by one.
Upgrade will launch Perfect Girl to international buyers at the European Film Market next month. CAA Media Finance is handling domestic rights.
Rudolph, a Hong Kong-born actress of Korean descent, will soon reprise her role as Kitana in New Line’s Mortal Kombat 2, directed by Simon McQuoid and slated for release on October 24. She is best known for her performances in Netflix’s Chilling Adventures of Sabrina and Resident Evil, as well as The CW’s Riverdale.
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Korean American actress Cho rose to prominence on MTV’s Teen Wolf and recently starred in Netflix’s Partner Track. She also appears as June in Netflix’s life action take on Avatar: The Last Airbender.
Hong, the co-founder of leading K-pop music video producer Zanybros, has directed multiple videos by such K-pop superstars as BTS, Gfriend, and Mamamoo. He moved into fiction with the horror anthologies Urban Myths, and Goedam, the latter acquired by Netflix, which featured current and former K-pop idols.
K-pop hitmakers Sunshine and Moonshine, whose credits include chart-toppers for BTS, Red Velvet, TWICE, and aespa, are on board to write the original soundtrack for Perfect Girl.
Badlands, launched last year with backing from Renegade Capital, has been ramping up its genre slate with upcoming projects including Ángel Gómez Hernández’s Arachnid and Dangerous Games to Play.
Rudolph is represented by IAG, Luber Roklin, and Goodman, Genow, Schenkman, Smelkinson & Christopher. Cho is repped by Innovative Artists and imPRint. Director Hong and Zanybros are represented by IAG and Magnolia Entertainment. Yu is repped by Verve and Code Entertainment.
