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Cast Finally Heading to Japan’s Haunted ‘Forest’
“Chicago Fire’s” Taylor Kinney, pictured, is heading into The Forest, the long-gestured Jason Zada-directed thriller for Focus Features and Lava Bear, reports Deadline.
He’ll star alongside “Game Of Thrones’” Natalie Dormer in a film that is based on an original idea by David Goyer (Blade Trinity, The Unborn), and incorporates the mythology of Japan’s Aokigahara Forest.
“Dormer plays an American woman who ventures into Japan’s legendary Aokigahara forest in search of her missing twin sister. She meets a man who changes her life, but he’s not who she thinks he is.”
Scripted by Nick Antosca, the film shoots in Serbia in May.
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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