EXCLUSIVE: Cole Sprouse is set to join Kathryn Newton and Storm Reid in the indie coming-of-age revenge thriller that will be directed ny Roxy Sophie Sorkin. Sorkin also wrote the pic that also stars Dove Cameron J. Smith Cameron and Owen Painter. Production is set to begin in Oklahoma in May.

Set against the eerie backdrop of a small Pacific Northwest town during a relentless heatwave, Hot Year
follows two childhood best friends whose bond is pushed to the brink after a revenge plan against an ex-boyfriend spirals into a violent incident they can’t take back. Over the course of one feverish night, the pair must navigate the consequences of their actions as buried trauma, loyalty and identity collide.

Wagner Entertainment’s Jordan Wagner and Killer Films’ Christine Vachon will produce alongside Evan
Silverberg and Dylan Conklin for Entertainment 360 and Ilya Stewart for Hype Studios. Ryan Hamilton will executive produce for Wagner Entertainment, with Amanda Larney serving as co-producer and George Bicknell associate producer. Newton will exec produce.

Aleksandr Fomin will executive produce on behalf of Hype Studios, with Pavel Burian executive producing for Mosaic Films. Talia Bella and Randy Wayne of Rebellium Films will serve as co-producers and are handling production services in Oklahoma.

Sprouse is coming off a busy 2025 shooting three films that included the independent features Wake, directed by Devon Michaels, followed by Elastic Hearts, directed by Milad Schwartz Avaz and Vintage Violence, directed by Eugene Kotlyarenko. He recently wrapped the co-lead of Amazon’s Goodbye Girl alongside Kiernan Shipka and Natalia Dyer.

Cole will next be seen in Andrew Patterson’s feature The Rivals of Amziah King, starring Matthew McConaughey and Kurt Russell and produced by David Heyman, which premiered at the 2025 SXSW Film Festival. He will also be seen opposite Margo Martindale in David Drake’s independent feature Dead Letters.

He is represented by WME, Entertainment 360 and DLA Piper