Jena Malone, Dermot Mulroney, Mekhi Phifer & Vannessa Vasquez Set A Mission As ‘Moon People’

EXCLUSIVE: Jena Malone, Dermot Mulroney, Mekhi Phifer & Vannessa Vasquez are astronauts in a trip to outer space in the Stanley Yung directed indie feature Moon People.

Written by Niko Foster, Moon People follows a team of astronauts who travel to the Moon to confirm the discovery of water, but they soon encounter unexpected danger and struggle to survive. The pic was shot in Lexington, Kentucky.

Malone plays Dr. Jennifer Foster while Mulroney will portray Sam Foster. Phifer is Cape Josh Briley and Vasquez is Dr. Diana Alvarez.

Moon People is a production of Al Bravo Films with producers Al Bravo, Michael Pizzimenti and Tim Sabo. EPs are Renata Stiglich and Pejman Partiyeli. Co-Producers are Hemdee Kiwanuka, Jacov Bresler and Michelle Wang.

Malone is the star of The Hunger Games franchise, Nic Winding Refn’s Neon Demon and Prime series Too Old to Die Young, The Boroughs series, Sundance premiere Love Lies Bleeding, Kevin Costner’s Horizon: An American Saga – Part 1 and Zack Snyder’s Rebel Moon – Part One: A Child of Fire.

Mulroney will next be seen in Season 2 of Netflix’s The Hunting Wives, opposite Malin Akerman and Brittany Snow, returning as Jed Banks. He will also star alongside John Travolta and Mandy Patinkin in Roland Joffé’s historical crime thriller November 1963, and currently stars in Art Camacho’s action thriller Ruthless. It was recently announced that he will return as Everett Stone for Searchlight’s The Families Stone. His film and television credits include Anyone But You, Marvel’s Secret Invasion, New Girl, American Horror Story, August: Osage County, The Family Stone, Friends, and My Best Friend’s Wedding.

Phifer starred on 136 episodes of ER, as well as the Apple TV series Truth Be Told, Hulu/ABC’s High Potential as well Spike Lee’s Clockers, Zack Snyder’s Dawn of the Dead, and the Oscar winning 8 Mile.

Actress, producer and screenwriter Vasquez starred on the Hulu series East Los High, Walker, MacGyver, Border Patrol and Disney+’s National Treasure: Edge of History, the feature Say A Little Prayer and the ABC series The Fix.

Malone and Phifer are repped by Gersh. Mulroney is repped by Paradigm. Vasquez is represented by Pastorini Bosby Talent.

Yung is the producer of Ethan Mao and the director of Shadow Dancer. He is repped by Allen Edelman Management.

Pic’s casting directors are Justin Nesbitt (The Hunting Season, Oscar Shaw, The Wrecker) and Victoria Lewis (D.O.P.E. Unit, War Dawgz, Hands).