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Writer Meghan Malloy has signed with WME for representation in all areas.<\/p>\n
Malloy is currently writing \u201cDance Parents,\u201d an original comedy feature starring Charlize Theron and Channing Tatum, with Jonathan Levine (\u201c50\/50,\u201d \u201cLong Shot,\u201d \u201cNine Perfect Strangers\u201d) attached to direct. Plot details are being kept under wraps, but the film is reported to be set in the competitive dance world, which is known for its super-passionate parents. The family comedy, also produced by Theron, Tatum and Levine, ultimately sold to Universal following a six-studio bidding war.<\/p>\n
More from Variety<\/strong><\/p>\n Malloy\u2019s career breakthrough came as a writer on the Oscar-winning \u201cSpider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse\u201d for Sony Pictures Animation. Following her success there, she proceeded to work on major studio franchises and IP at the studio, including \u201c21 Jump Street,\u201d which stars Tatum and Jonah Hill; the animated musical comedy \u201cVivo\u201d; and the sports comedy \u201cGOAT,\u201d from Stephen Curry\u2019s Unanimous Media. Malloy also contributed additional material to Dreamworks Animation\u2019s \u201cRuby Gillman: Teenage Kraken\u201d and worked on \u201cWhere\u2019s Waldo.\u201d She is known for her ability to develop projects for high-level talent, including her work with Tatum and Theron, as well as Drew Barrymore.<\/p>\n Malloy began her career as a development assistant at NBCUniversal and Mick Jagger\u2019s Jagged Films before working as Jon Favreau\u2019s assistant for the films \u201cChef\u201d and \u201cThe Jungle Book.\u201d In 2015, she started working as \u201cSpider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse\u201d co-writer and co-director Rodney Rothman\u2019s writer\u2019s assistant. In 2020, Malloy was tapped to develop a live-action English-language TV adaptation of the popular manga series\u00a0\u201cThe Promised Neverland\u201d\u00a0for Amazon. <\/a><\/p>\n WME will work with Malloy to continue building her writing career and expand into directing and producing. In addition to WME, Malloy continues to be represented by Sydney Blanke at Sugar 23 and Mahdi Salehi at Hansen Jacobson.<\/p>\n Best of Variety<\/strong><\/p>\n Sign up for Variety’s Newsletter<\/a>. For the latest news, follow us on Facebook<\/a>, Twitter<\/a>, and Instagram<\/a>.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n \u2018 The preceding article may include information circulated by third parties \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n \u2018 Some details of this article were extracted from the following source www.yahoo.com \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Writer Meghan Malloy has signed with WME for representation in all areas. Malloy is currently writing \u201cDance Parents,\u201d an original comedy feature starring Charlize Theron and Channing Tatum, with Jonathan Levine (\u201c50\/50,\u201d \u201cLong Shot,\u201d \u201cNine Perfect Strangers\u201d) attached to direct. Plot details are being kept under wraps, but the film is reported to be set […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":2157274,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"jnews-multi-image_gallery":[],"jnews_single_post":[],"jnews_primary_category":[],"jnews_social_meta":[],"footnotes":""},"categories":[25172],"tags":[413138,320289,367293,413139,384893,413137,413136,337219,352758,310531,363770],"class_list":["post-2157273","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-entertainment","tag-career-breakthrough","tag-channing-tatum","tag-charlize-theron","tag-dance-parents","tag-jonah-hill","tag-jonathan-levine","tag-meghan-malloy","tag-sony-pictures-animation","tag-spider-verse","tag-stephen-curry","tag-wme"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/WME-Signs-\u2018Dance-Parents-Writer-Meghan-Malloy-EXCLUSIVE.jpeg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2157273","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2157273"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2157273\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2157275,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2157273\/revisions\/2157275"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2157274"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2157273"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2157273"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2157273"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}