Pamela Anderson is set to star opposite Debbie Harry in Maitreya, a comedy that will launch at the Cannes market as Caviar brings the film to buyers. Jonathan Krisel is attached to direct the project from a script by Samuel D. Hunter, with shooting scheduled to begin at the end of 2026.

The film follows Maitreya, a rising figure in the New Age healing community, who is about to head to a conference in India when she gets a call from her estranged sister, Monica, saying their father is dying. She responds by bringing her entire family, including her mother Barbara, to the conference and trying to put her healing beliefs to the test, all while secretly gathering material for her next book.

The package arrives as Anderson continues a notable career resurgence after earning SAG and Golden Globe award nominations for Gia Coppola’s Cannes title The Last Showgirl. Her upcoming slate also includes Rosebush Pruning, Somedays, Place To Be and Michael Cera’s directorial debut, keeping her busy well beyond this new comedy.

Harry brings her own screen history to the project. The Blondie frontwoman and Rock ‘N’ Roll Hall of Famer has appeared in David Cronenberg’s Videodrome and John Waters’ Hairspray, a resume that gives Maitreya a more eclectic cast than most market-bound comedies.

Fortitude International is launching international sales at Cannes, while CAA Media Finance and UTA Independent Film Group are handling North America. Michael Sagol said the project has already been a pleasure to make with Krisel and Hunter, adding that producing the director’s first feature, a soulful family story shaped by his absurdist comic voice, has the team excited. The clean read is that Maitreya is being positioned as a Cannes-market comedy with unusual casting, a distinctive creative team and a long runway before cameras roll at the end of 2026.