Matt Walsh Joins ‘The Unexpecteds’; Lin Shaye, Bill Moseley Board ‘Scared To Death’; Sublimity Lands ‘Chapel’; Hulu/Firelight Kindling Fund Launch; ‘This World Is Not My Own’ Trailer – Film Briefs
deadline.comEXCLUSIVE: 2x Emmy nominee Matt Walsh (Veep) has signed on to star alongside Alejandro De Hoyos (The Man from Toronto), Chelsea Rendon (Vida), Francisco Ramos (Gentefied), John Kaler (The Wrong Guy) and Jason Konopisos-Alvarez (Harold & Kumar Escape from Guantanamo Bay) in the action-comedy The Unexpecteds from writer-director Alejandro Montoya Marín.
Pic follows Gary (Walsh) and a group of his best friends as they seek revenge against a social media influencer who has scammed them of their life savings.
De Hoyos is producing for Alta California Pictures, with Kaler, Jasmin Espada, Walsh and Pedro Pano co-producing. Walsh is repped by UTA, Artists First and Ginsburg Daniels Kallis; De Hoyos by Marlene Agency; Rendon by Momentum Talent and Literary Agency and The Green Room; Ramos Innovative Artists, Silvera Arougheti Entertainment Group and Goodman, Genow, Schenkman; Kaler by The Acting Group Talent Agency, Open Range Management, Presley Talent Agency and Kreative Media Partners; and Konopisos-Alvarez by Crown North Talent Management, Synergy Talent, The Boysen Agency and Inclusion. *** EXCLUSIVE: Horror icons Lin Shaye (Insidious franchise) and Bill Moseley (The Devil’s Rejects) are set to star alongside Olivier Paris (How I Met Your Father) and Daytime Emmy winner Victoria Konefal (Days of Our Lives) in the film Scared to Death, which is heading into production in Los Angeles in March.
The feature from Mirror Films follows a group of young filmmakers who enter an abandoned children’s orphanage in order to do research for a movie…and that’s their first mistake.
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