{"id":33266,"date":"2025-07-02T18:35:14","date_gmt":"2025-07-02T18:35:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/33266\/"},"modified":"2025-07-02T18:35:14","modified_gmt":"2025-07-02T18:35:14","slug":"ashley-benson-emily-alyn-lind-madelaine-petsch-join-pretty-babies","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/33266\/","title":{"rendered":"Ashley Benson, Emily Alyn Lind, Madelaine Petsch Join ‘Pretty Babies’"},"content":{"rendered":"

\n\tAshley Benson<\/a>, Emily Alyn Lind<\/a>, Madelaine Petsch<\/a> and Sadie Stanley<\/a> have been tapped for the lead roles in \u201cPretty Babies<\/a>,\u201d an indie female friendship drama written and directed by Tyler-Marie Evans, who makes her feature debut.<\/p>\n

\n\tSet to enter production later this summer, the film follows two teenage girls who run away to Hollywood, chasing stardom, but their dreams lead them into prostitution, trapping them in the dark underbelly of the sex work industry as they travel from Texas to California.<\/p>\n

\n\t\u201c\u2019Pretty Babies\u2019 is a love letter to Old Hollywood. We\u2019re pushing into something new with this script, and
that excitement has been palpable from the start, and something felt by every collaborator,\u201d said Evans.<\/p>\n

\n\tChristine Vachon from Killer Films is producing, alongside Jordan Wagner from Wagner Entertainment. Benson will produce. Amanda Larney of Killer Films is associate producing.<\/p>\n

\n\t\u201cWhen I first met Tyler-Marie, I knew immediately there was something special about her. She brings a
unique, personal, and compelling vision to a story that truly deserves to be told. It was her passion and
perspective that first drew me to this project, and now, partnering with Christine and Killer Films, along
with the incredible cast we\u2019ve assembled, we couldn\u2019t ask for a better team to help bring it to life,\u201d said Wagner.<\/p>\n

\n\tThe project has assembled a critically acclaimed below-the-line team, including production designer
Jonathan Guggenheim (\u201cAmerican Fiction\u201d), editor Benjamin Rodriguez Jr. (\u201cOh, Canada\u201d), and director of photography Lauren Guiteras (\u201cDandelion\u201d).<\/p>\n

\n\tBest known for starring in HBO Max\u2019s \u201cGossip Girl\u201d reboot series, Lind has previously been seen in
films such as \u201cThe Babysitter\u201d franchise, \u201cDoctor Sleep\u201d and \u201cGhostbusters: Frozen Empire.\u201d She can now be seen starring in Amazon Prime\u2019s psychological thriller series \u201cWe Were Liars,\u201d an adaptation of the best-selling novel by E. Lockhart.<\/p>\n

\n\tStanley can currently be seen starring in Sony Pictures\u2019 \u201cKarate Kid: Legends,\u201d which opened in theaters on May 30, alongside Jackie Chan, Ralph Macchio, Joshua Jackson and Ben Wang. Previously, she starred alongside Ray Romano and Laurie Metcalf in Romano\u2019s directorial debut, \u201cSomewhere in Queens,\u201d and starred in the second season of Freeform\u2019s anthology series \u201cCruel Summer.\u201d Stanley\u2019s first role was as the title character in the 2019 live-action \u201cKim Possible\u201d movie for Disney Channel.<\/p>\n

\n\tPetsch will next star in and produce the second installment of Lionsgate\u2019s franchise reboot trilogy \u201cThe Strangers \u2013 Chapter 2,\u201d which will be released in theaters on Sept. 26. She will also star in and produce Amazon MGM\u2019s romantic comedy \u201cMaintenance Required.\u201d She is best known for her role in the hit CW series \u201cRiverdale,\u201d created by Greg Berlanti.<\/p>\n

\n\tBenson is best known for her role as Hannah Marin on the Freeform hit series \u201cPretty Little Liars.\u201d She most recently starred in the psychological thriller \u201cMcVeigh\u201d alongside Alfie Allen, Anthony Carrigan and Brett Gelman, which premiered at the 2024 Tribeca Film Festival, and Amazon\u2019s \u201cWilderness,\u201d alongside Jenna Coleman and Oliver Jackson-Cohen. Her previous film roles include the cult-hit \u201cSpring Breakers;\u201d \u201cPixels\u201d for Sony, alongside Adam Sandler, Josh Gad and Michelle Monaghan; and Alex Ross Perry\u2019s \u201cHer Smell,\u201d alongside Elisabeth Moss.<\/p>\n

\n\tLind is repped by CAA, The Lede Company and Brecheen Feldman Breimer. Stanley is repped by Gersh,
Thruline Entertainment and Goodman Genow. Petsch is repped by Mosaic, CAA, The Lede Company,
and Goodman Genow Schenkman Smelkinson + Christopher (GGSSC). Benson is repped by Independent Artist Group, Viewpoint, and attorney Nina Ramer of Hansen, Jacobson, Teller, Hoberman, Newman, Warren, Richman, Rush, Kaller, Gellman, Meigs & Fox L.L.P..<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Ashley Benson, Emily Alyn Lind, Madelaine Petsch and Sadie Stanley have been tapped for the lead roles in…\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":33267,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[28],"tags":[27774,27775,171,12263,53,27776,27777,67,132,68],"class_list":{"0":"post-33266","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-movies","8":"tag-ashley-benson","9":"tag-emily-alyn-lind","10":"tag-entertainment","11":"tag-madelaine-petsch","12":"tag-movies","13":"tag-pretty-babies","14":"tag-sadie-stanley","15":"tag-united-states","16":"tag-unitedstates","17":"tag-us"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/114785086680608856","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33266","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=33266"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33266\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/33267"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=33266"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=33266"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=33266"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}