ABOUT THE PROJECT

LOGLINE
When the New Republic of Texas mandates that women procreate by 35 or be euthanized, four career-driven "thirty-something" besties go into hiding on a remote ranch in Nowhere, TX. Unable to homestead via YouTube, can they find the balls to survive in a world that wants them dead?

SYNOPSIS
The year is 2029 and Texas, under the leadership of right-wing extremists, has finally managed to secede from the union. With the formation of a New Republic, there’s a new law of the land: childless women over the age of 35 are now redundant and will be put to death. The stage has been set for a grim Handmaid’s Tale-esque story…but, surprise! This is a comedy!

Before the Secession, these career-driven women had foregone motherhood and successful marriages to pursue their ambitions. They were professors, engineers, community leaders, and big-time social media influencers. Now that the world is against them, one of the women has a plan; she will use her hard-earned income to secretly purchase a plot of land—an isolated ranch in rural Texas—where the women can escape until the whole thing blows over. Not to be damsels in distress and all.

The majority of the story centers on the ranch where the four single, book-smart, former besties with zero survival skills have to hide while stumbling through their only option left: homesteading. Pretty much their nightmare. The fate their grandmothers fought to escape to raise strong, feminist women has now circled back to claim them. But while the circumstances are depressing and they are fish out of water, the women soldier on through a comedy of errors.

LADY KINGS OF TEXAS moves quickly, punctuated with laugh-out-loud story points in a wild ride that will surprise and entertain. At the same time, it presents the dire potential consequences of the overturning of Roe v. Wade, and this country’s continued attack on women’s reproductive freedom. As with many fish-out-of-water / marriage-of-incompatibles comedies, it will leave viewers feeling extremely connected to these women and smitten with (and inspired by) how female friendships can save us even at our lowest moments.

PROJECT TYPE Narrative Feature

DIRECTOR KATHERINE DUDAS
SCREENWRITER KATHERINE DUDAS
PRODUCER CARLY CHRISTOPHER, ELISABETH NESS, GIOVANNIE CRUZ
ASSOCIATE PRODUCER KENNEISHA THOMPSON

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