Debbie Harry and Pamela Anderson Will Play Mother and Daughter in New Age Comedy ‘Maitreya’

Debbie Harry and Pamela Anderson will star as mother and daughter in Maitreya, a new comedy film produced by Caviar. Deadline first reported the project, which is set to shoot later this year.

The script, written by BAFTA-nominated Samuel D. Hunter, follows Maitreya (Anderson), a rising figure in the new age healing community. As she prepares to travel to a conference in India, her estranged sister delivers news that their father is dying. Maitreya invites the entire family to attend the event, framing the crisis as a live test of her spiritual methods while quietly gathering material for her next book.

Jonathan Krisel directs. His credits stretch from Portlandia and Baskets to English Teacher, work that consistently sharpens absurd situations into precise, character-driven comedy. Hunter’s involvement brings a similar texture; he wrote for Baskets and earned recognition for films like The Whale, and his dialogue tends to treat desperate people with clear-eyed affection.

The casting pairs two figures whose public images have rarely overlapped. Harry, as Blondie’s frontwoman, shaped a certain downtown New York cool that never calcified into nostalgia. Anderson, after decades of being framed by tabloid culture, has recently reclaimed her own narrative onscreen and off. Their combined presence in a satire about spiritual commerce and family damage suggests a movie that could lean into deadpan discomfort rather than broad caricature. The production has not yet announced a release date.