Here Are All the Movies Lola Tung Is Starring in Next
Okay, so Lola Tung’s next few projects are actually a little wild.
Instead of choosing one predictable follow up, she currently has a small town dramedy, a horror movie, a completely secret film and what appears to be a sapphic soccer romance waiting for us. No new television show has been announced yet, so right now we are very much entering Lola Tung’s movie era.
Here is everything we know so far.
1. Chasing Summer
Chasing Summer follows Jamie, a disaster relief worker who loses her job and gets dumped by her boyfriend around the same time. She returns to the small Texas hometown she left years ago, moves back in with her parents and starts confronting the friends, relationships and embarrassing old memories she thought she had escaped.
Basically, everything in her life falls apart and then her hometown decides to make it worse. Cute.
Lola plays Harper, a younger woman Jamie meets while working at her sister’s roller rink. Harper becomes one of Jamie’s new friends as she tries to work out what exactly she is doing with her life.
Iliza Shlesinger leads the movie as Jamie, with Garrett Wareing, Cassidy Freeman, Tom Welling and Megan Mullally completing the principal cast alongside Lola. Aimee Garcia, Jeff Perry and David Castañeda are also part of the wider ensemble.
This is not a movie built entirely around Lola, but I’m kind of happy about that. It gives her the chance to be funny, relaxed and slightly chaotic without having to carry every emotional crisis herself. Sometimes the supporting character who walks into a mess with fresh eyes ends up being the person everyone likes most.
The film premiered at the Sundance Film Festival on January 26, 2026, before screening at SXSW in March and the Nantucket Film Festival in June. It still does not have a confirmed general release date or streaming home. So yes, technically several festival audiences have watched it. The rest of us are just sitting here waiting politely.
2. The Young People
And now we go from roller skating and hometown problems to Lola covered in blood. Normal career progression, obviously.
Lola and Nico Parker are leading The Young People, a new horror film written and directed by Osgood Perkins. Nicole Kidman, Tatiana Maslany, Heather Graham and Johnny Knoxville are also part of the cast, which is such a random and interesting group of people that I already need to know what happened on that set.
The cast is even bigger than that. Cush Jumbo, Brendan Hines, Lexi Minetree and Good One star Lily Collias have also joined the movie. Neon is releasing it theatrically in the United States, so this one is not being quietly dropped onto a streaming service without warning.
The story is still being kept secret. It has only been described as a coming of age “bad trip,” which tells us almost nothing while somehow making it sound worse.
The first look at Lola showed her covered in blood, but we do not know whose blood it is, what happened to her or whether her character is the person in danger. She could be the terrified girl trying to survive the movie. She could also be the reason everyone else needs to survive it. Both options work for me.
The movie has finished filming and was listed as being in post production in July 2026. Neon is still expected to release it theatrically sometime in 2026, but an exact date has not been announced. This feels a little rude considering they already showed us a blood covered Lola and then disappeared.
This might be the project that changes how people see her as an actress. Horror does not let someone stay charming and emotionally familiar for long. It asks them to become frightened, unsettling or completely impossible to read.
We have never seen Lola do anything like that before, and I really want to know whether we are supposed to trust her.
3. Please
Please is giving us almost nothing right now. A title, a cast and silence. Thank you so much, everyone involved.
Lola has joined Gracie Abrams, Tom Burke, Connor Storrie and David Jonsson in the film, which is being written and directed by Halina Reijn. Gracie is expected to lead the movie in her first acting role, while every character surrounding her, including Lola’s, is still being kept secret.
The full plot has not been announced, but A24 has finally given us three words: “sexy and romantic.” Halina has also said the story explores something women will recognise, while Gracie described the script as dark and twisty. Helpful? Slightly. Enough to explain what any of these five actors are doing together? Absolutely not.
That secrecy is doing most of the work at the moment because every possible detail suddenly feels like a clue. Is Lola playing Gracie’s friend, her enemy or someone who enters the story for ten minutes and ruins everyone’s life?
I would love to give you answers, but they genuinely gave us almost nothing to work with here.
For now, Please is simply the mysterious one in Lola’s schedule. We know Halina Reijn wrote it, A24 is producing and financing it, and the cast includes Gracie Abrams, Lola Tung, Tom Burke, Connor Storrie and David Jonsson. There is still no publicly confirmed release date.
We will probably be analysing the first photo the second they finally release it.
4. Ripe!
And then there is Ripe!, the project the internet is already being completely normal about (it is not).
Lola appeared in a teaser wearing a soccer uniform, sweaty from the game and staring down another female player on the field. That player is Rita Roca, who portrayed Gloria in the original short film and is returning opposite Lola for the new project. So far, Lola and Rita are the only cast members publicly connected to the feature.
The teaser was enough to connect Lola to a new version of Ripe!, a queer romance built around soccer, rivalry and two girls who may be feeling much more than competitive.
The original short film follows Sophie, an American exchange student in Spain, and Gloria, a local player who becomes both her rival and romantic interest. The two girls compete on the field while their relationship starts becoming increasingly personal off it.
The new project has not confirmed whether Lola is playing Sophie. We also do not have a wider cast list, a filming schedule, a distributor, a streaming platform or a release date. All we really have is the teaser, Lola sharing it herself and Rita returning as Gloria.
But honestly, the idea already makes sense for her. It is romantic without being soft all the time. The girls are attracted to each other, but they are also actively trying to beat each other. There is jealousy, physical tension and that horrible little problem of realising the person annoying you most might also be the person you cannot stop looking at.
Former professional soccer player Kelley O’Hara is involved as an executive producer, so hopefully the soccer will feel like a real part of the relationship instead of something the characters occasionally remember they are supposed to be playing.
I fear this one may cause problems when the full cast is finally announced.
So, What Are We Actually Getting?
At the moment, we have one horror movie in post production and expected in theatres during 2026, one dramedy that has already travelled through several festivals but is still waiting for a wider release, and two projects that are keeping their release plans hidden.
It is not the easiest schedule to follow, but the actual choices are really interesting. Lola is not making four versions of the same movie or playing the same girl with a different name.
Harper sounds funny and grounded. The Young People could make her terrifying. Please is keeping her completely unreadable, while Ripe! may give her a romantic role that feels competitive, physical and very different.
My guess is that The Young People will be the movie that surprises everyone, but Ripe! will be the one the internet refuses to behave normally about.
Either way, I’m happy we still cannot predict exactly what Lola will do next. It is much more fun watching someone build a career when they keep choosing roles we never thought to imagine for them.