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Exec producer: Wave of death threats from biz gal

THE EXECUTIVE producer of a sci-fi comedy had wanted to show drama on the big screen.

But the drama instead entered his life — in a scary way — after he says an investor started making awkward sexual overtures and then bombarded him with death threats.

Keith Wright charges in a suit filed Thursday in Manhattan Supreme Court that he persuaded Sean Liao and his daughter, Wendy Liao, in August 2016 to form a production company with him called GTM Pictures.

But he claims the collaboration became a horror show after Wendy Liao sent him an avalanche of emails and texts containing messages such as “Die” and “You have to be killed,” leading to her arrest in May for aggravated harassment.

Wright, 33, says he was wrongly fired by the Liaos after the arrest.

“Mr. Wright was subject to disturbing and illegal behavior,” his attorney, Kevin Mintzer, said.

Wright had counted on the Liaos for money to fund “Time Freak,” a movie about a physics student who builds a time machine after his girlfriend breaks up with him. It stars Sophie Turner, who plays Sansa Stark in HBO’s “Game of Thrones,” and is inspired by an Oscar-nominated short of the same name.

Wendy Liao, however, allegedly seemed more interested in Wright than the movie.

Liao, 32, referred to Wright as a “gigolo” during meetings, suggested he was having an affair and stalked him on social media using fake accounts, the suit claims.

“Ms. Liao frequently suggested to Mr. Wright, without any basis, that he was promiscuous, that he frequented strip clubs, and that he was ‘hooking up’ with models, strippers, or other women,” the lawsuit claims.

She also showed up drunk in the lobby of Wright’s apartment building in January, and a month later, insisted he take her out for a birthday dinner and a movie, the suit says.

“During the movie, Ms. Liao put her arm on Mr. Wright several times, which required that Mr. Wright repeatedly pull away from her,” the suit alleges.

In May, after Wright blocked Liao on social media, he says her overtures gave way to something more sinister:

“You have to be killed. Sincerely yours, Wendy Liao.”

“Don’t walk down the street. You will be mrdered (sic). Sincerely yours, Wendy Liao.”

“You mean to be died (sic). To be killed.” “You should be slaughtered.” He also says Liao texted him the word “Die” a dozen times.

Wright says his firing was blatant retaliation that robbed him of money he would have earned through the company. He seeks damages to be determined at trial.

Calls to Liao and her attorney were not immediately returned.