Jimmi Simpson, Ben Wang & Zosia Mamet Among New Additions To Mercedes Bryce Morgan’s Dark Comedy ‘Kaet Might Die’

EXCLUSIVE: Jimmi Simpson (Westworld), Ben Wang (The Hunger Games: Sunrise on the Reaping), and Zosia Mamet (Girls) are among new additions to Kaet Might Die, the adaptation of Kaet McAnneny’s cancer memoir Boobs Gone Rogue from director Mercedes Bryce Morgan (Bone Lake), which has wrapped production.

Others include J.B. Yowell (The Leader), who also exec produces, along with Lauren Tom (The Copenhagen Test), Katherine Lunam, Sharon Azrieli, and Ana Ruiz de Porras. As previously announced, Awkwafina, Anthony Ramos, and Ken Jeong lead the cast.

Adapted by Angela Gulner and Yuri Baranovsky, Kaet Might Die is a dark comedy telling the true story of a woman (Awkwafina) who has it all — until a cancer diagnosis upends her perfectly ordered life, forcing her to rely on humor and imagination to survive a crumbling marriage and overbearing family.

Hailing from Balcony 9 Productions (Dead Man’s Wire), Whitewater Films (Mean Creek), Invention Studios (Severance), Fever Dream Studios (Appendage) and Toric Films (Oscar Shaw), the film is produced by Joel David Moore, Katrina Kudlick, Rick Rosenthal, Nicholas Weinstock, Sarah Cornelius, Ojan Missaghi, David Wachs, and Chase Hinton.

Awkwafina and McAnneny are joined as EPs by Rishi Bajaj, Vinny Smith, Daniel Taborga, Jarod Einsohn, Richard Lunam, Eric Gozlan, JB Yowell, Raymond Merrill, Lee Broda, Jeff Rice, Ryan Chismark, Chelsea Chismark, Amber Gibson, Mark Kline, Natalie Kline, Charlie Honea, and Morgan. Arlie Day and Mike Page served as co-producers and casting directors, with Zachary Burgess also co-producing.

CAA and Capture Entertainment are co-repping domestic sales for the project.

Simpson is repped by CAA, Cognition, and Hansen, Jacobson, Teller; Wang by Stewart Talent, Artists First, and Schreck Rose Dapello; Mamet by UTA, 3 Arts Entertainment, and Weintraub Tobin Chediak; Yowell by Roger Paul Talent; and Tom by Pop Art Management.