Pressure

Status: Pre-Production

CASTING OPEN

Principal Photography:
April 2026

Locations:
Orlando, Tampa, Atlanta, Durham

Pressure follows a traveling stripper who methodically targets men in the clubs where she dances. There's no obvious pattern to her kills—just a quiet precision in how she selects them.

Writer and Director: Jamel Johnson

Cast

Pressure:OPEN

Age: Late 20s to mid-30s
Role: Protagonist/Antihero
Traits:
Preternaturally calm; violence is ritualistic, not emotional.
Speaks sparingly, but every line carries weight (often mocking or testing her victims).
Physically commanding—uses her body as both lure and weapon.
Tells: Practicing smiles in mirrors, folding clothes with surgical precision.
Hidden Depth: Trauma responses masquerade as psychopathy (e.g., killing men who mirror her grandfather).

Robert:OPEN

Age: Late 60s
Role: The Wolf in Grief's Clothing
Traits:
Projects frail, grandfatherly warmth; eyes linger too long.
Talks about his dead daughter like a saint, but his body betrays him (shaking hands, nervous laughter).
Turning Point: The panty scene—his hunger isn't sexual, it's nostalgic.
Audience Whiplash: Sympathetic until he's not.

Man Man:OPEN

Age: Early 40s
Role: The Pimp
Traits:
Boastful but insecure (flaunts money/Asia to compensate).
Treats women as commodities until Pressure commodifies him ("I need the cash you got too").
Fatal Flaw: Thinks he's the apex predator in the room.

Asia:OPEN

Age: Mid-20s
Role: The Willing Victim
Traits:
Performs submission (giggles at Man Man's jokes, calls him "Daddy").
Reveals cunning too late—tries to negotiate when Pressure flips the script.
Tragic Irony: Dies begging for approval from her abuser.

Background & Crew:ALWAYS OPEN

Various supporting roles and crew positions available

Producers: Chad Scott, T., Jamel Johnson