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Lyriq Bent Will ‘Pay the Ghost’
Lyriq Bent, who played Lt. Daniel Rigg in Saw II, III and IV has signed on to join Nicolas Cage in the supernatural thriller Pay the Ghost, TheWrap has learned.
“Cage will play a hard-working NYU English professor bucking for tenure when his 8-year-old son mysteriously vanishes from a Halloween day parade.”
Bent will play Detective Reynolds in the film, which co-stars Sarah Wayne Callies (“The Walking Dead”) and is expected to be released next year.
Uli Edel (The Baader Meinhof Complex) is directing for Voltage Films, whose Nicolas Chartier and Craig Flores are producing with Ian Levy of Midnight Kitchen Productions.
Christopher Landon (Happy Death Day, Freaky) is staying busy here in 2024, directing not only the werewolf movie Big Bad but also an upcoming thriller titled Drop.
The project for Blumhouse and Platinum Dunes is being described as a “fast-paced thriller,” and Deadline reports today that Violett Beane (Truth or Dare) has joined the cast.
Newcomer Jacob Robinson has also signed on to star in the mysterious thriller. Previously announced, Meghann Fahy (“White Lotus”) will be leading the cast.
Landon recently teased on Twitter, “This is my love letter to DePalma.”
Jillian Jacobs and Chris Roach wrote the script.
Michael Bay, Jason Blum, Brad Fuller and Cameron Fuller — “who brought the script in to Platinum Dunes” — are producing the upcoming Drop. Sam Lerner is an executive producer.
THR notes, “The film is a Platinum Dunes and Blumhouse production for Universal.”
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