Inde Navarrette has found her next major movie role, and it sounds absolutely bonkers. The Hollywood Reporter has learned that the Obsession breakout is set to star in The Waffle House Index, a sci-fi thriller that has been picked up by Apple Original Films, with Brad Pitt’s Plan B Entertainment producing.
Navarrette will also executive produce the movie, marking her first producing credit.
The Waffle House Index has a screenplay by Andrew Nunnelly, whose script appeared on the 2025 Black List. Louis Paxton, whose Sundance NEXT Innovator Award-winning film The Incomer is heading to theatres later this month, is directing.
The title refers to a real-world informal measurement of hurricane severity based on how much service a Waffle House restaurant is able to provide during extreme weather. A green designation means the restaurant is operating normally, yellow means it is operating with a limited menu because of supply problems, and red means the restaurant has closed due to unsafe conditions.
But the movie takes that concept in a more outlandish direction.
Navarrette will play a Waffle House waitress whose already bad day gets worse when a stranger with a gun shows up during her night shift. What happens after involves a mass flood, killer crocodiles, a nuclear explosion, a magical bunker under the Waffle House, and aliens.
Plan B is producing The Waffle House Index, continuing its relationship with Apple Original Films following F1. The production company, led by Pitt, Dede Gardner, and Jeremy Kleiner, has also been behind projects like Teenage Sex and Death at Camp Miasma and is preparing Sarah Polley’s adaptation of The Bell Jar.
The project represents another major step forward for Navarrette following her breakout performance in Curry Barker’s Obsession. The horror film became a massive box office success, grossing more than $505 million worldwide against a reported production budget of just $750,000.
Navarrette’s performance has also put her in the middle of awards season conversation. Variety recently reported that Focus Features is mounting a major Oscar campaign for Obsession, with Navarrette being submitted in the Best Actress category. Barker is also being positioned for Best Director, Original Screenplay, and Film Editing, among numerous other categories.
Navarrette previously appeared in the fourth and final season of Netflix’s 13 Reasons Why and had a key role on The CW’s Superman & Lois. She has also already landed another enormous role, having been cast as Rogue in Marvel’s upcoming X-Men movie.
Now, she is adding The Waffle House Index to an intriguing post-Obsession slate.
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