NAKED SINGULARITY tells the story of Casi (John Boyega), a promising young NYC public defender whose idealism is beginning to crack under the daily injustices of the very justice system he’s trying to make right. NAKED SINGULARITY tells the story of Casi (John Boyega), a promising young NYC public defender whose idealism is beginning to crack under the daily injustices of the very justice system he’s trying to make right. Doubting all he has worked for and seeing signs of the universe collapsing all around him, he is pulled into a dangerous high-stakes drug heist by an unpredictable former client (Olivia Cooke) to beat the broken system at its own game. Based on the PEN prize-winning novel A Naked Singularity by Sergio De La Pava, a former Manhattan District Attorney with first-hand knowledge of the everyday travesties of justice in city courtrooms. Featuring a cast that includes Olivia Cooke (Sound of Metal, Ready Player One), Bill Skarsgård (It, Deadpool 2), Ed Skrein (Deadpool, Alita: Battle Angel), Linda Lavin (“Alice”, “The Good Wife”) and Tim Blake Nelson (The Ballad of Buster Scruggs, O Brother Where Art Thou?). NAKED SINGULARITY is produced by Tony Ganz, Kevin J. Walsh, Ryan Stowell, P. Jennifer Dana and Ross Jacobson, and executive produced by Ridley Scott, Dick Wolf, Sebastien Raybaud, Francois Callens, John Zois, Mark Roberts, Tony Pachella, Deborah Roth, Anna Boden and Ryan Fleck. Director and screenwriter Chase Palmer joins us to talk about approach to this genre blending together a story that is part satire on the criminal justice system, part high state heist, part metaphysical meditation into a very entertaining and well acted cinematic ride.

In Theaters August 6^th and On Demand August 13^th

About the filmmaker – Chase Palmer is a Brooklyn-based writer/director. His two award-winning short films, NEO-NOIR and SHOCK AND AWE, have played at film festivals worldwide, including Sundance, the BFI London Film Festival, and Deauville. Current projects include writing/directing a feature adaptation of the PEN-prize winning book A NAKED SINGULARITY with Ridley Scott producing; adapting the Josh Malerman novel UNBURY CAROL for the director Cary Fukunaga, writing THE ROBBER for JC Chandor and Amazon, and adapting the New York Times series THE OUTLAW OCEAN for Netflix and Appian Way. Past projects include co-writing IT CHAPTER ONE for Warners and New Line; THE ALIENIST for TNT, adapting the New York Times best seller THE SEARCH FOR WONDLA by acclaimed children’s author Tony Diterlizzi for Paramount; and the Civil War heist movie NO BLOOD, NO GUTS, NO GLORY for producer Kevin Misher and Focus, which was on the 2009 Hollywood “Black List” of best unproduced screenplays.

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In Theaters August 6^th and On Demand August 13^th