After you dive back intoStranger Thingsnext week, you’ll be able to spend some time with series starGaten Matarazzolater next month in a Paramount+ YA comedy. He stars oppositeAngourie Rice(Mare of Easttown) inHonor Society, a coming-of-age story about a girl who’s hellbent on taking down the competition, so she can make it to an Ivy League school. The problem is, slaying your college opponents isn’t as easy to do once you meet and fall in love with them. The movie premieres in late July.
In the trailer, Honor (Rice) talks directly to the camera as she lays out her four-year plan to earn a place at an Ivy League school; which consists of overachieving, volunteering, and putting in the work to make a name for herself. There’s just one problem with all of her well-laid plans… her guidance teacher informs her that she’s in the top four. Naturally, she’s going to have to take out the competition if she’s going to achieve her dreams and Michael (Matarazzo) is the biggest threat standing in her way.
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Honor Societyis directed byOran Zegman. After helming a slate of short films, the director is making her feature film debut with this comedy. The screenplay is by six-time Emmy nomineeDavid A. Goodman, who’s had plenty of experience with comedy: He wrote for TV series likeFamily GuyandThe Orville, and also penned the script for laugh-out-loud video gameLego Batman: The Movie – DC Super Heroes Unite.
The cast ofHonor Societyalso featuresChristopher Mintz-Plasse(Promising Young Woman),Armani Jackson(Grey’s Anatomy),Ben Jackson Walker(Orange is the New Black), andAmy Keum(Paramount+’sEvil).
Paramount+ premieresHonor Societyon July 29 in the U.S., Canada, Australia, and the U.K. The streamer is yet to announce release dates for other territories.
You can watch the trailer below:
Check out the official synopsis here:
Honor is an ambitious high school senior whose sole focus is getting into an Ivy League college…assuming she can first score the coveted recommendation from her guidance counselor, Mr. Calvin. Willing to do whatever it takes, Honor concocts a Machiavellian-like plan to take down her top three student competitors, until things take a turn when she unexpectedly falls for her biggest competition, Michael.
