Awkwafina, Anthony Ramos & Ken Jeong Dark Comedy ‘Kaet Might Die’ Heads To Cannes Market

EXCLUSIVE: Capture Entertainment is launching international sales at Cannes on dark comedy Kaet Might Die, the adaptation of Kaet McAnneny’s cancer memoir Boobs Gone Rogue.

Filming has wrapped on the movie, which stars Golden Globe and Emmy winner Awkwafina (The Farewell), Grammy winner Anthony Ramos (In The Heights) and The Hangover star Ken Jeong. The project reunites Crazy Rich Asians duo Awkwafina and Jeong as father and daughter.

Mercedes Bryce Morgan, who most recently directed 2025 erotic horror Bone Lake, is helming the script adapted by Angela Gulner and Yuri Baranovsky. The film 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 domestic 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,” said director Morgan today. “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,” added Moore. “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 serve as executive producer 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, Charlie Honea, and Mercedes Bryce Morgan.

Arlie Day and Mike Page serve as co-producers and casting directors. Additional executive producers include Michael Thomas, Lynette Gurule-Thomas, James Cullen Bressick, Andrew Asheroft, Ana Paczynska, Marsha Lunam, Sharon Azrieli, Natalie Kline, Carmelo Chimera, Syed Ali Saeed, Natasha Yi, Brando Eaton, Richie Wells, Michael Landon, Michael Bassick, Pierre Romain, Julie Solinger.

Casting was first rumored six weeks ago 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 attorney 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.