Deadline broke the news Tuesday morning that something wicked this way comes in the form of a witchy new feature film called Forbidden Fruits. Or more specifically, that the film has officially been acquired by IFC Films and Shudder for distribution in the U.S. and Canada.
Starring Lili Reinhart, Lola Tung, Victoria Pedretti, Alexandra Shipp, and Emma Chamberlain, the movie centers around a witchy cult for women that meets in a mall basement after its members have wrapped up their shifts for the day. Things take a turn with the arrival of a new recruit named Pumpkin, who "challenges their performative sisterhood."
Forbidden Fruits will be the feature directorial debut for Meredith Alloway, who has several short films and a 2020 Paris Jackson music video under her belt. The script is based on a play by Lily Houghton — Of the Women Came the Beginning of Sin, and Through Her We All Die — that first premiered Off-Broadway in October 2019 and was billed as a "dynamic new play about the dangers of commercializing millennial femininity."
Houghton and Alloway worked together as co-writers to adapt the play for the screen.
Production on Forbidden Fruits is currently underway, with the movie’s official Instagram sharing a cute video to celebrate shortly after the distribution news came out.
The list of producers include Mason Novick, Trent Hubbard, Mary Anne Waterhouse and, notably, Diablo Cody.
"Forbidden Fruits grabbed me by the neck the very first time I read it," Cody previously told Deadline. "It’s one of the craziest, most creative, beautifully bonkers projects I’ve ever worked on. I feel so lucky to be collaborating with Meredith and Lily, who have become heroes of mine in short order."
Although there’s no release date as of yet, the film is expected sometime in 2026.