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Ruby Rose steps in for Elliot Page in gamer comedy 1Up

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Former Batwoman star Ruby Rose has joined 1Up, the underdog comedy set on this planet of esports, after Elliot Page’s exit from the venture.
According to The Hollywood Reporter, Kyle Newman is directing the film from a script by Julia Yorks.
1Up follows a younger girl named Valerie Lee, who quits her faculty staff of esports, a type of sport competitors utilizing video video games, after she is fed up with gaslighting from her male counterparts, and shortly realises her determination comes at the price of her scholarship.

“But, she discovers a loophole to save her collegiate future: if she can find a coach and assemble a whole new varsity-caliber team capable of reaching the State Finals. Valerie turns to her professor, Parker Nesby, and together with Valerie’s best friend and fellow gamer Sloane, they form and train a rag-tag women’s team committed to taking down the boys that tried to shut them out of gaming in the first place,” as per the movie’s official logline.

Rose will play Professor Nesby to Paris Berelc’s Valerie within the movie hailing from Lionsgate and BuzzFeed.
The Kissing Booth 2 breakout star Taylor Zakhar Perez, Hari Nef of Assassination Nation fame, and Dora and The Lost City of Gold actor Nicholas Coombe additionally around the forged.
Production on 1Up is underway in Toronto.