2024 saw NEON step up and claim the mantle of buzziest indie distributor, with multiple successful films including Longlegs, Immaculate, and Oscar nominees Anora and The Seed of the Sacred Fig. While 2025 is looking impressive, too (The Monkey opens this week), beyond that NEON is already loading up on what could be the next big thing. That could be The Wrong Girls, a stoner comedy with an A-list cast led by Kristen Stewart and Alia Shawkat.
Production is underway on The Wrong Girls, marking the debut of writer/director Dylan Meyer. The film centers on Frankie (Stewart) and Molly (Shawkat), codependent best friends living paycheck to paycheck and bong rip to bong rip, when a case of mistaken identity throws their lives into chaos.
Also in the cast are Seth Rogen, Kumail Nanjiani, LaKeith Stanfield, Zack Fox, and Tony Hale. Rogen is also a producer on the film.
The Wrong Girls is one of the first indie films to go into production in Los Angeles following the devastating wildfires. The production will take place completely in the city and 95% of the cast are LA residents including DP Todd Banhazi, composer Ty Segall, and Emmy nominated costume designer Heidi Bivens. Additionally, Philadelphia punk band Mannequin Pussy will perform for the film at an LA DIY space.
Meyer produced Stewart’s directorial debut, The Chronology of Water, and previously co-wrote the Netflix films XOXO and Moxie.
The Wrong Girls is Stewart’s third film with NEON following Spencer, which earned her first Oscar nomination, and David Cronenberg’s Crimes of the Future. She was most recently seen in the futuristic romance Love Me.
Shawkat was last seen in Zoe Kravitz’s Blink Twice. She can be seen now in the second season of Apple series Severance, and later this year in the award-winning Sundance film Atropia.
