Jesse Eisenberg, Adrien Brody, Riley Keough to Star in Manodrome

Academy Award nominee Jesse Eisenberg, Academy Award winner Adrien Brody and Riley Keough are set to star in John Trengove’s Manodrome, to be unveiled at the Cannes virtual market at the upcoming festival.

The upcoming thriller tells the story of

Ralphie, played by Eisenberg, an Uber driver and aspiring bodybuilder who is inducted into a libertarian masculinity cult and loses his grip on reality when his repressed desires are awakened.

Trengove is making his English-language debut after his Xhosa-language debut feature, The Wound, screened at Sundance and Berlin.


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