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

By PTI
LOS ANGELES: Former “Batwoman” star Ruby Rose has joined “1Up”, the underdog comedy set on the earth of esports, after Elliot Page’s exit from the mission.

According to The Hollywood Reporter, Kyle Newman is directing the film from a script by Julia Yorks.

“1Up” follows a younger lady named Valerie Lee, who quits her school 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 choice comes at the price of her scholarship.

“But, she discovers a loophole to avoid wasting her collegiate future: if she will discover a coach and assemble an entire new varsity-caliber staff able to 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 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.