Danny Glover, Taylor Handley, Ryan Pinkston, Margo Harshman, Beverley Mitchell, Tiffany Hines, Leebo Freeman, Fiona Hale and C.S. Lee have all joined the cast of the sci-fi thriller ''Mentryville" at Awp and StudioLine Entertainment reports Variety.
The story is set at an off the grid pharmaceutical testing facility who hires a renowned scientist (Glover) to create a vaccine for a lethal airborne virus. Handley's character and his friends cause complications when they help clean out the house of his hoarding grandmother and save her from eviction.
Jason R. Dudek (''Legacy'') directs from his own script. Greg Strasburg (''The Tempest'') serves as producer. Shooting begins later this month in Los Angeles.
The story is set at an off the grid pharmaceutical testing facility who hires a renowned scientist (Glover) to create a vaccine for a lethal airborne virus. Handley's character and his friends cause complications when they help clean out the house of his hoarding grandmother and save her from eviction.
Jason R. Dudek (''Legacy'') directs from his own script. Greg Strasburg (''The Tempest'') serves as producer. Shooting begins later this month in Los Angeles.
- 8/16/2011
- by Garth Franklin
- Dark Horizons
Here's a massive post-weekend catchup casting roundup, with a headlining turn from Jean-Claude van Damme. How can you resist the Muscles From Brussels? Answer: you can't. Just give in to his suave, over-confident appeal. After the break you'll find details about: Jcvd taking part in a sci-fi film called UFO, Danny Glover joining the cast of a different sci-fi thriller, Mentryville, Sullivan Stapleton becoming the latest member of the Gangster Squad, Nico Tortorella from Scream 4 joining Guy Pearce and Amy Ryan in an indie, and What to Expect When You're Expecting adds more. Kicking off with UFO, the story here (per THR [1]) is that the writer/director, Dominic Burns, got Jean-Claude Van Damme to take a part in the film by emailing the actor's wife. That works? Evidently so! He'll be "a retired military advisor," but we don't know how big the part actually is. The film is about...
- 8/15/2011
- by Russ Fischer
- Slash Film
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