The live-action adaptation of Paper Girls has found its time-traveling newspaper delivery team.
Deadline is reporting that Sofia Rosinsky (Fast Layne), Camryn Jones (Pacific Rim: The Black), Riley Lai Nelet (Altered Carbon) and Fina Strazza (Law & Order: Special Victims Unit) will star in the television series set to premiere on Amazon Prime Video. The show, based on the Image Comics series by Brian K. Vaughan and Cliff Chiang, put out a virtual casting call last fall looking for young leads. Now, the adaptation has found its four stars.
Rosinsky will play Mac Coyle, a loner who becomes the leader of the Paper Girls. She's a "working-class Catholic girl" and "the first paperboy in Stony Stream who isn’t a boy. Mac inherited the paper route from her older brother, someone for whom she has undying loyalty and love… which might be the wrong place to put it. Mac’s toughness however is no act, she has a sharp tongue and quicker fists. Like most bullies, however, Mac is perhaps masking a deep well of insecurity."
Jones will play Tiffany Quilkin, " the only child of success-oriented, mixed-race parents." She has "big plans for her future and no intention of seeing them derailed. While she is at times willing to improve on the truth when in a tight spot, there is no denying that Tiffany is crazy smart. She boasts an encyclopedic knowledge of pop culture, a love of gadgets and technology. She has been delivering papers for a little over a year."
Lai Nelet will play Erin Tieng. She's a "dutiful daughter, sister, and yes, newly-minted newspaper employee" and "often feels caught between worlds. On the one hand, she’s a dual-language immigrant with deep Chinese roots, on the other, she’s an All-American kid on the verge of her teenage years who desperately wants the TV-perfect life she often sees depicted in the Western culture all around her."
Strazza will play KJ Brandman. She's "one of the only Jewish girls in Stony Stream and comes from the wealthiest family in town, two things nobody will let her forget. It is perhaps only when playing field hockey that she feels truly seen – an image that conflicts starkly with her mother’s desires for her. KJ is guarded, sensitive and underneath her veneer, emotionally roiling. She doesn’t need the paper-delivery job, but it makes her feel free."
Though the series does not yet have a release date, production will reportedly start this year in Chicago. Christopher Cantwell (Iron Man) and Christopher C. Rogers (Halt and Catch Fire) will serve as showrunners and executive produce alongside Stephany Folsom (Toy Story 4). The synopsis for the series can be found below:
Paper Girls follows four young girls who, while out delivering papers on the morning after Halloween in 1988, become unwittingly caught in a conflict between warring factions of time-travelers, sending them on an adventure through time that will save the world. As they travel between our present, the past, and the future — they encounter future versions of themselves and now must choose to embrace or reject their fate.
Amazon Studios' Paper Girls stars Sofia Rosinsky as Mac Coyle, Camryn Jones as Tiffany Quilkin, Riley Lai Nelet as Erin Tieng and Fina Strazza as KJ Brandman. The series does not yet have a release date.
Source: Deadline