Last month, Deadline broke the news that Oscar-winning Juno writer Diablo Cody, who has also written the genre films Jennifer’s Body and Lisa Frankenstein, will be producing Forbidden Fruits, which will mark the feature directorial debut of Meredith Alloway and is an adaptation of the Lily Houghton stage play Of the Women Came the Beginning of Sin, and Through Her We All Die. Now, Deadline reports that Lili Reinhart (Hustlers), Lola Tung (The Summer I Turned Pretty), Victoria Pedretti (You), Alexandra Shipp (Barbie) and newcomer Emma Chamberlain have signed on to star in the film, which has also secured a U.S. and Canadian distribution deal with IFC Films and the Shudder streaming service. IFC Films is planning a 2026 theatrical release.

In Forbidden Fruits, Free Eden employee Apple secretly runs a witchy femme cult in the basement of the mall store after hours – with fellow fruits Cherry and Fig. But...