I was wondering what was going on with this one, shot in early 2023, and stuck in post production limbo ever since. It turns out that a straight to streaming fate has landed upon Geremy Jasper’s “O’Dessa.”
Searchlight Pictures has debuted the first trailer for “O’Dessa,” a rock opera marking the sophomore outing for the “Patti Cake$” filmmaker. The film is set to premiere straight to streaming via HULU on March 13, after world premiering at SXSW.
The story being told here is a far cry from the realist urban landscape of “Patti Cake$.” Instead, what we have in “O’Dessa,” set in a post-apocalyptic future, is a psychedelic musical fantasy following a farm girl on an epic quest to recover a cherished family heirloom.
Sadie Sink (“Stranger Things”) plays the title character, who at the beginning of the trailer ventures through what appears to be a wasteland. “The world has gone mad out there,” she’s told. “Ain’t safe for a gal with stars in her eyes.”
“My daddy used to tell me my singing had the power to bring light to the darkness and change things,” O’Dessa tells us. She eventually ventures to Satylite City, which she’s told is “a depraved and sinful place,” and forms a romance with Euri (Kelvin Harrison Jr.).
Jasper penned “O’Dessa,” also writing and producing 16 original songs for the film alongside Jason Binnick — his collaborator on “Patti Cake$,” which had earned him DGA and Independent Spirit Awards nominations. No awards for this one, it’s been decided that streaming is a better fit than theatrical.
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