Casting news has come in for the upcoming horror comedy Final Girls, directed by Todd Strauss-Schulson (A Very Harold and Kumar 3D Christmas). Nina Dobrev (The Vampire Diaries) and Thomas Middleditch (Silicon Valley) have been cast in key roles along with previously cast Malin Akerman and Taissa Farmiga. The film is described as a cross between Back to the Future and Friday the 13th. Read on for more details.
According to The Hollywood Reporter, Silicon Valley star Thomas Middleditch and The Vampire Diaries’ Nina Dobrev have joined The Final Girls, a horror comedy from Sony Pictures Worldwide Acquisitions being directed by Todd Strauss-Schulson.
Also joining the production are Adam Devine (Pitch Perfect, Comedy Central’s Workaholics) and Alexander Ludwig (Hunger Games).
Malin Akerman and Taissa Farmiga are starring in the meta movie which centers on a girl who, along with her friends, is mysteriously transported into the world of an iconic ’80s horror flick, which starred her recently deceased mother (Akerman), a famous scream queen. The group must try to survive the movie and defeat its crazed killer.
Mark Fortin and Joshua John Miller wrote the script. Michael London and Janice Williams are producing via their Groundswell Productions banner.
London has described the project as being “the unlikely child of Back to the Future and Friday the 13th.”
Middleditch will play a film geek for whom landing in a classic horror flick is a dream come true, until it turns into a nightmare. Dobrev will play the alpha ex-best friend.
Ludwig will act as Farmiga’s love interest while Devine will be the movie-within-a-movie’s appointed teen seducer.
Production on the film, which SPWA acquired in February, begins next week in Louisiana.
Source: The Hollywood Reporter
