Awkwafina, Anthony Ramos, Ken Jeong Dark Comedy ‘Kaet Might Die’ Wraps
EXCLUSIVE: Capture Entertainment is launching worldwide gross sales at Cannes on darkish comedy Kaet Might Diethe difference of Kaet McAnneny’s most cancers memoir Boobs Gone Rogue.
Filming has wrapped on the film, which stars Golden Globe and Emmy winner Awkwafina (The Farewell), Grammy winner Anthony Ramos (In The Heights) and The Hangover star Ken Jeong. The venture reunites Crazy Rich Asians duo Awkwafina and Jeong as father and daughter.
Mercedes Bryce Morgan, who most lately directed 2025 erotic horror Bone Lakeis helming the script tailored by Angela Gulner and Yuri Baranovsky. The movie tells the “true story of a woman (Awkwafina) who has it all—until a cancer diagnosis upends her perfectly ordered life, forcing her to rely on humor and imagination to survive a crumbling marriage and overbearing family.”
Capture is co-representing home gross sales with CAA. Pic is produced by Balcony 9 Productions (Dead Man’s Wire), Whitewater Films (Mean Creek), Invention Studios (Severance), Fever Dream Studios (Appendage) and Toric Films (Oscar Shaw). Producers are Joel David Moore, Katrina Kudlick, Rick Rosenthal, Nicholas Weinstock, Sarah Cornelius, Ojan Missaghi, David Wachs, and Chase Hinton.
“This amazing script is based on a real story, but expressed through a lens that’s darkly funny, heightened, and wildly surreal,” director Morgan mentioned as we speak. “Because sometimes when things are dark, the best response is to find a way to still laugh through it all. Awkwafina navigates that tonal tightrope in a way very few actors can, and building a cast around her that could match that energy was incredibly important to me.”
“When Kaet first brought me her memoir, I thought her fearless and hilarious take on the worst moments of her life would resonate with audiences everywhere,” Moore added. “But Mercedes and the team have brought that vision to life in ways beyond my wildest imagination led by Awkwafina in a career-defining performance.”
Awkwafina and McAnneny function govt producers alongside Rishi Bajaj, Vinny Smith, Daniel Taborga, Jarod Einsohn, Richard Lunam, Eric Gozlan, JB Yowell, Raymond Merrill, Lee Broda, Jeff Rice, Ryan Chismark, Chelsea Chismark, Amber Gibson, Mark Kline, Natalie Kline, Charlie Honea, and Mercedes Bryce Morgan.
Arlie Day and Mike Page function co-producers and casting administrators. Additional govt producers embrace Michael Thomas, Lynette Gurule-Thomas, James Cullen Bressack, Andrew Asheroft, Anna Ruiz de Porras, Marsha Lunam, Sharon Azrieli, Carmelo Chimera, Syed Ali Saeed, Natasha Yi, Brando Eaton, Richie Walls, Michael Landon, Michael Bassick, Pierre Romain, Julie Solinger, Casey James and Garrett Jason Greer.
Casting was first rumored six weeks in the past by TheInSneider.
Awkwafina is represented by CAA, Artists First and Schreck, Rose Dapello, Adams, Berlin & Dunham; Ramos is represented by CAA, Range Media Partners, and Paul Hastings; Jeong is repped by IAG, Untitled Entertainment, and legal professional Chad Christopher; Morgan is repped by UTA, Navigation Media Group, and Bloch Law. Gulner is repped by Fictional Entity and Yorn, Levine; Baranovsky is repped by Principal Entertainment LA and Yorn, Levine; McAnneny is repped by Gersh and Wizzo and Co.
