Eiza González, Taylour Paige, Poppy Liu, Will Poulter Join Boots Riley’s ‘I Love Boosters’ for NEON

Award-winning studio NEON announced today that Eiza González (Baby Driver), Poppy Liu (Hacks), Taylour Paige (Zola), and Will Poulter (The Bear) have joined the cast of Boots Riley’s highly anticipated next feature I Love Boosters.

The quartet of actors join the previously announced Keke Palmer (Nope), Naomi Ackie (Blink Twice), LaKeith Stanfield (Judas and the Black Messiah), and Demi Moore (The Substance).

Principal photography is set to commence this fall. Aaron Ryder and Andrew Swett will produce on behalf of their Ryder Picture Company (RPC) with Savage Rose Films’ Allison Rose Carter and Jon Read, under their production and development partnership with NEON. Executive producers include Mike Jackman, Gus Deardoff, Ken Kao and Josh Rosenbaum for Waypoint Entertainment, Megan Ellison for Annapurna, and NEON. NEON is financing the film with Waypoint Entertainment and will release the film theatrically in the US and handle international sales. 

I Love Boosters is about a ring of enterprising boosters (aka shoplifters, equal opportunists), who take aim at a cutthroat fashion maven. Additional plot details are currently being kept under wraps. Below the line team includes a score by Tune-Yards (Tomboy), cinematography by Natasha Braier (The Neon Demon), editing by Matthew Hannam (The Iron Claw), and production design by Christopher Glass (The Jungle Book).

González is best known for her roles in films such as Edgar Wright’s Baby Driver and Netflix’s I Care A Lot in addition to her television work such Netflix series 3 Body Problem and Hulu’s La Máquina. Up next, she will be seen in both of Guy Ritchie’s new films In The Grey and Fountain of Youth along with the mystery sci-fi movie Ash. She most recently wrapped production on Mike and Nick and Nick and Alice opposite James Marsden and Vince Vaughn.

Liu is a Chinese American actress and activist who has starred in the series Hacks, The Afterparty, Better Call Saul, and can be seen in the upcoming No Good Deed.

Paige had her breakout performance as the title character in Janicza Bravo’s 2020 comedy/crime film Zola, for which she won an Independent Spirit Award for Best Female Lead. She also starred in Ma Rainey’s Black Bottom, the music video for Kendrick Lamar’s “We Cry Together,” Beverly Hills Cop: Axel F, and can be seen in the upcoming HBO series It: Welcome to Derry.

Poulter is an English actor who gained recognition in 2013 for his role in We’re the Millers, going on to star in The Maze Runner film trilogy, Alejandro G. Iñárritu’s The Revenant, Black Mirror: Bandersnatch, and Ari Aster’s Midsommar. He also starred in Hulu’s Dopesick in 2021 and FX’s The Bear for both of which he was nominated for Primetime Emmy Awards.

González is repped by CAA, Linden Entertainment, and Jackoway Austen Tyerman Wertheimer Mandelbaum Morris Bernstein Trattner Auerbach Hynick Jaime LeVine Sample & Klein. Liu is repped by Buchwald, Framework Entertainment, and Schreck Rose Dapello Adams Berlin & Dunham. Paige is repped by CAA, Entertainment 360, andGranderson Des Rochers. Poulter is repped by WME, Hamilton Hodell, and Sloane, Offer, Weber & Dern.