{"id":874449,"date":"2026-06-17T22:08:21","date_gmt":"2026-06-17T22:08:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/874449\/"},"modified":"2026-06-17T22:08:21","modified_gmt":"2026-06-17T22:08:21","slug":"lewis-pullman-set-for-motocross-movie-ragamuffin","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/874449\/","title":{"rendered":"Lewis Pullman Set For Motocross Movie ‘Ragamuffin’"},"content":{"rendered":"

\n\tEXCLUSIVE:<\/strong> Top Gun: Maverick and Thunderbolts* star Lewis Pullman<\/a> is putting on his helmet for Kaitlyn Mikayla<\/a>\u2018s coming-of-age motocross drama Ragamuffin<\/a>.<\/p>\n

\n\tThe pic reps Mikayla\u2019s feature directorial debut and is based on her short film that Oscar-nominated producer David Permut<\/a> caught at Sundance. He will produce Ragamuffin under his Permut Presentations with Alex Astrachan. Pre-production and financing for the film is underway.<\/p>\n

\n\tThe Hacksaw Ridge producer has a knack for discovering talent at the Robert Redford-founded festival (and others), developing projects with them, only to return in an even bigger way. Permut first met Will McCormack and Rashida Jones in Park City years ago and later landed them to pen The Invite, which was Sundance\u2019s biggest sale out of this year\u2019s festival at $10M+ to A24. That pic opened on June 26 in limited release.<\/p>\n

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\t\t\t\t\tDavid Permut <\/p>\n

\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tCharley Galley\/Getty<\/p>\n

\n\tRagamuffin follows Mad Mike (Pullman) and his 14-year old daughter, an aspiring motocross champion, as she competes in a tournament over the course of a summer. The original short film, which is inspired by Mikayla\u2019s own experience in the world of motocross, was executive produced by 4x Oscar nominee Jason Reitman, and earned such honors as Kodak Best Shot on Film (16mm) at HollyShorts and Best Narrative Short at the San Luis Obispo International Film Festival, along with prizes from other fests.<\/p>\n

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\t\t\t\t\tEden Harper in \u2018Ragamuffin\u2019<\/p>\n

\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tSundance\/Jared Bedrejo<\/p>\n

\n\tMikayla most recently was featured as one of Filmmaker Magazine\u2019s 25 New Faces of Independent Film. She\u2019s directed, shot and edited international campaigns for brands including Sports Illustrated Swimsuit, Barneys New York, Juicy Couture, Nautica, Nine West, Lucky Brand and more.<\/p>\n

\n\t\u201cLewis brings a rare emotional depth and authenticity to every role he inhabits,\u201d said Mikayla.<\/p>\n

\n\t\u201cInspired by, and named after, my own father, finding the right actor carried enormous weight,\u201d she added. \u201cLewis has an extraordinary ability to communicate entire worlds beneath the surface, and I couldn\u2019t be more excited to have him bring Mad Mike to life on screen.\u201d<\/p>\n

\n\tPermut calls Mikayla \u201cpart of the next great generation of filmmakers. It\u2019s a privilege to be working with Kaitlyn. I think the emotionality of the relationship between Mad Mike and his daughter, against the backdrop of the intense world of motocross, will be an exhilarating experience for the audience.\u201d<\/p>\n

\n\tThe producer, in addition to Olivia Wilde\u2019s The Invite, has had a string of movies premiere at Sundance including Twinless, directed by and starring James Sweeney alongside Dylan O\u2019Brien, which was acquired by Roadside Attractions after its 2025 premiere. There was also the Jack Black-starring, Maya Forbes-directed The Polka King, which sold to Netflix out of the 2017 Park City fest.<\/p>\n

\n\tThe Emmy-nominated Pullman is repped by CAA and Anonymous Content. The actor also recently starred in Netflix\u2019s Remarkably Bright Creatures and Wishful Thinking, which took home the narrative feature prize at SXSW this year.<\/p>\n

\n\tMikayla is repped by WME and Kaplane\/Perrone Entertainment. Permut is repped by John Tishbi at Pearlman and Tishbi.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"EXCLUSIVE: Top Gun: Maverick and Thunderbolts* star Lewis Pullman is putting on his helmet for Kaitlyn Mikayla\u2018s coming-of-age…\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":874450,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[28],"tags":[355466,171,355467,167134,53,158321,67,132,68],"class_list":["post-874449","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-movies","tag-david-permut","tag-entertainment","tag-kaitlyn-mikayla","tag-lewis-pullman","tag-movies","tag-ragamuffin","tag-united-states","tag-unitedstates","tag-us"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/116767733517263712","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/874449","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=874449"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/874449\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/874450"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=874449"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=874449"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=874449"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}