12-05-2025
Patrick Wilson, Elizabeth Marvel, Bill Camp, Molly Ringwald & More Join Dark Comedy ‘Thoughts And Prayers'
EXCLUSIVE: Writer-director Nitzan Bachar 'NB' Mager has set an impressive cast for her debut feature, Thoughts and Prayers. The roster includes Patrick Wilson (The Conjuring franchise), Margaret Cho (Fire Island), Elizabeth Marvel (Presumed Innocent), Alyssa Marvin (Trevor: The Musical), Yul Vazquez (Severance), Bill Camp (Zero Day), and Molly Ringwald (Feud: Capote vs. The Swans).
Currently in post-production, Thoughts and Prayers is a dark comedy based on Mager's award-winning, Oscar-qualifying short film, Run Amok. The story follows a teenage girl who decides to stage a musical reenactment of a tragedy that took place at her high school 10 years ago.
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Julie Christeas, Founder and CEO of Tandem Pictures (Nuked, Black Bear), produced alongside Frank Hall Green (Gonzo Girl, Wildlike). Exec producers included Tom Franco, Allison Franco, Tad Selby, Derek Strum, Joav Bally, Jaykant R. Patel, Rama K. Penta, and Rajesh Penta. Mager's script was a quarterfinalist for the Academy Nicholl and FinalDraft Big Break prizes, and a second rounder for the Sundance Screenwriters Lab.
For Brooklyn-based filmmaker Mager, recent works include Run Amok, which premiered as a Vimeo Staff Pick; Quarantine, I Love You, a web anthology series that took part in the Beyond Film program of the 2020 Sundance Film Festival; and a docu short on Gloria Steinem for her receipt of the John Jay Medal of Justice, for which Mager interviewed the late Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsberg. Her short films have screened and garnered awards at film festivals across the country, as well as Gotham Film Week, and have won awards from the National Board of Review and New York Women in Film and Television. She is repped by Granderson Des Rochers.
Wilson is repped by CAA, Anonymous Content, and Hansen, Jacobson, Teller; Cho by WME, manager Sarah J. Martin, and Fox Rothschild; Marvel by Innovative Artists, Viking Entertainment, and Franklin, Weinrib, Rudell & Vassallo; Marvin by Buchwald; Vazquez by Gersh and Untitled Entertainment; Camp by UTA and Franklin, Weinrib, Rudell & Vassallo; and Ringwald by Untitled Entertainment and Barking Dog Entertainment.
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