Olivia Taylor Dudley and François Arnaud will star in Godstar, a dark comedy-drama from director Oren Shai that has wrapped production in Los Angeles, according to Deadline (Deadline).

Dudley plays Ronnie Dalton, a sharp-tongued, self-destructive New York actress who arrives in Los Angeles to rehearse a revival of the play that made her famous. Arnaud plays Sky Blue, the charismatic former lover who abandoned Ronnie at the height of their careers. Blu Hunt and James Urbaniak round out the cast.

Shai described the film as "a deeply personal film about artists making their own tragedies and the heavy dues art requires," calling it equal parts dark comedy and waking nightmare. It is his second feature, following The Frontier, a neo-noir that had its world premiere at SXSW.

What gives the project an unusual pedigree is its screenwriter. Godstar marks the screenwriting debut of Nicole Morier, a songwriter whose credits include work with Britney Spears and Charli xcx — a jump from pop hooks to dialogue and structure that few songwriters attempt in features.

Dudley is best known for starring as Alice Quinn on Syfy's The Magicians, which ran for five seasons. Her recent film credits include Touch Me, which premiered in the Midnight section of the 2025 Sundance Film Festival, and Onyx the Fortuitous and the Talisman of Souls. Arnaud appears in the Peabody Award-winning HBO Max series Heated Rivalry, and his latest film work includes Twinless, Fucktoys, and Someone's Daughter. He recently finished filming Hulu's limited series Count My Lies and is set to make his Broadway debut this winter in Three Days of Rain.

Dustin Cook and Linda Ajeti produced the film under the Bureau of Content and Sabertooth banners. David Guglielmo and Christopher Rodriguez-Marquette served as co-producers, with Claire Koonce and Charlene Lee, CSA overseeing casting.

No release date or distributor has been announced. With production now wrapped, the next step for any independent film is finding a sales agent or a festival premiere slot — the kind of decision that determines when, and whether, audiences see it.