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Vice Media and Annapurna Pictures have partnered to produce The Bad Batch, a dystopian love story by upcoming director Ana Lily Amirpour.
Amirpour's debut feature, A Girl Walks Home Alone At Night, was an Iranian vampire fairytale and received acclaim in 2014.
Annapurna's Megan Ellison will produce the new movie, alongside Vice Media's Danny Gabai and Sina Sayyah. Annapurna’s Sammy Scher will serve as the executive overseeing day-to-day development and production while VICE’s Shane Smith and Eddy Moretti are executive producers.
Vice will leverage its global youth audience and in-house film marketing team in the US and select international territories.
Eddy Moretti, chief creative officer for Vice, said: "Ana Lily is a force of cinematic nature. She inhabits that special place where the pop sensibility of the movies meets the deep sensuality of film art.
"It's a tricky thing to pull off – creating this kind of wildly entertaining visionary cinema – but Ana Lily is powerful, so she can pull it off.
"I'm thrilled and honoured to help bring The Bad Batch to life with my friends at Annapurna. This is going to be a lot of fun."
This article originally appeared on Media Week.