Independent thriller “Don’t Forget Me Tomorrow” has locked in Charlotte Kirk and Jesse Kove and will begin principal photography in New Mexico this August, producers said after unveiling the package on 2 July. Kirk acquired screen rights to A.L. Jackson’s 2023 romance of the same name, wrote the screenplay and will produce through her Primal Empire Studios banner.
Jackson’s novel has drawn more than 6,800 listener ratings on Audible, giving the film built-in recognition among readers who favour darker love stories. Veteran genre filmmaker Travis Mills, whose western “Frontier Crucible” recently wrapped with Thomas Jane and William H. Macy, is set to direct.
Incentives helped seal the location choice: New Mexico offers a 25 percent refundable credit on qualified spend plus a 10-point rural uplift for shoots at least sixty miles beyond Albuquerque or Santa Fe, with an extra five points for work inside approved soundstages. State tax records show only $28.5 million of the $130 million fiscal-2025 credit fund has been drawn so far, leaving ample room for mid-budget productions. Producers added that the credit, combined with rural landscapes that match the novel’s small-town setting, edged out rival offers from Georgia and Louisiana.
Kove, recognised globally for Netflix’s “Cobra Kai,” joins a crew expected to hire heavily from the local workforce once cameras roll. The project also shines a fresh light on Kirk: her profile surged in 2019 when leaked text messages linked to her relationship with Warner Bros. chief Kevin Tsujihara preceded his resignation, an episode that still shadows her career. Since then she has steered her own material, including Neil Marshall’s period chiller “The Reckoning,” signalling a continued drive for creative control that now extends to bringing Jackson’s novel to the screen.
