EXCLUSIVE: UTA has signed emerging filmmaker Will Ropp for representation in all areas.
Earlier this year, Ropp took to SXSW to premiere his feature directorial debut, the coming-of-age comedy Brian starring Ben Wang, William H. Macy, Randall Park and Natalie Morales, and exec produced by Seth Meyers.
Wang plays the title character, an anxious, socially isolated 17-year-old whose unrequited crush on his English teacher, played by Morales, motivates him to run for class president.
No word yet on when the film will be released.
Already, though, Ropp is in post on his sophomore feature, Dedicated to
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