Dave Bautista, Channing Tatum Join Cate Blanchett in Alpha Gang

The Alpha gang just got a lot bigger.

A pack of A-listers, included Dave Bautista, Channing Tatum, Steven YeunZoë Kravitz, Léa Seydoux, and Riley Keough join two-time Oscar winners Cate Blanchett in Alpha gangthe new alien invasion comedy from the Zellner Brothers.

Set “in a heightened reality,” the film follows a group of alien invaders who disguise themselves as a leather-clad motorcycle gang from the 1950s on their mission to conquer Earth. But their ruthless plans are derailed when they encounter humanity’s most contagious condition: emotions. Blanchett will star as the alien leader Alpha One.

The project is one of the most popular new titles being shopped for International buyers next week American film market in Las Vegas. France’s mk2 Films is handling international sales of the title, while CAA Media Finance is handling North American distribution rights. Mk2, which produced Oscar winner Anatomy of a fall, presale started for the film that hit the Cannes market earlier this year.

David and Nathan Zellner are outraged by their out-there success Big Foot comedy Sasquash sunsetstarring Keough and Jesse Eisenberg, both unrecognizable beneath their furry costumes. Cameraman Mike Gioulakis, who shot Sasquatch sunsetand was Jordan Peele’s cinematographer Us And Old from director M. Night Shyamalan will lens the project.

The Zellners will also produce Alpha gang for ZBi, alongside Blanchett and Coco Francini, producing through their Dirty Films outfit. Other producers include Gina Gammell for Felix Culpa, Ryan Zacarias for Fat City, Mary Aloe for Aloe Entertainment and Andrea Bucko for Sugar Rush Pictures. Executive producers are Sean Krajewski, Ronnie Exley, Lawrence Minicone and Jeremy Ross for Rabbits Black, Tyler Peters and Sophie Curtis of Electric Void, and Tom Ogden, in collaboration with Aloe’s partners at Partners in Kind, Gillian Hormel and Shelly Tygielski.