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Dana Gerber

Texas native Cooper Raiff’s new film casts stars of ‘Licorice Pizza’ and ‘Stranger Things’

It’s Coopers in stereo.

Cooper Hoffman, who burst onto the scene last year when he played a budding entrepreneur in Paul Thomas Anderson’s "Licorice Pizza," is set to star in Dallas native Cooper Raiff’s third feature film, "The Trashers," Deadline reported on Friday. David Harbour of "Stranger Things" fame is set to star opposite Hoffman, the 19-year-old son of the late Philip Seymour Hoffman.

Harbour and Hoffman will play father and son in the hockey film, which follows the real-life scandal of Jimmy Galante, a Connecticut garbage mogul who bought his 17-year-old son, AJ, a minor-league hockey team in 2004. Just two years later, Galante, caught up with the Genovese crime family, was indicted on 72 counts, including extortion, witness tampering and racketeering.

The film “is down to choosing between several distributors, and will shoot this fall,” according to Deadline.

Raiff, whose sophomore film, "Cha Cha Real Smooth", came out last month to mixed reviews, will direct the film. Adam R. Perlman (”Billions”) wrote the script, with “current revisions” by Raiff, Deadline reported. AJ Galante, the one-time hockey team manager, will serve as an associate producer.

Raiff, 25, is an alumnus of the Greenhill School in Addison. He made his film debut as the writer-director-star of his 2020′s S---house, before returning to the big screen to triple threat once again in "Cha Cha."

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