The Harvest stars Morton and Shannon as a married couple with medical backgrounds and a sick son (Tahan) who lives secluded in a controlled environment until a young girl (Calis) moves in next door and gives him hope of a better life. As the teens grow closer, the tight-knit world his over-protective mother has created begins to unravel.
Penned by Stephen Lacelotti, the film follows a doctor and nurse who are trying to adjust to a new life when their child is born with a debilitating disease. How far are they willing to go in order to save their only son’s life?
EW is reporting that Sci-Fi fan-favorite Gillian Anderson, pictured above, of “X-Files” fame is returning to broadcast series television. After a decade she is set to join Bryan Fuller’s NBC serial-killer thriller “Hannibal”. And perhaps the best part is the role she’s playing… In a multi-episode arc, Anderson is going to play murderous psychiatrist Dr. Hannibal Lecter’s (Mads Mikkelsen) own therapist!
In other brief casting news, Peter Fonda, pictured below, will be joining Samantha Morton and Michael Shannon in The Harvest, reports Deadline. The Oscar-nominated actor will play the grandfather of the teenage girl who moves in next door to the characters played by Shannon and Morton in the John McNaughton-directed indie thriller. Their sick son Andy (Charlie Tahan) lives a life tightly controlled by his parents but a relationship with new neighbor Maryann (Natasha Cole) rips that control apart. Leslie Lyles plays Maryann’s grandmother and Fonda’s onscreen spouse in The Harvest. READ MORE
While he was once developing the A Nightmare on Elm Street prequel for New Line Cinema, Henry: Portrait of a Serial Killer director John McNaughton is set to return for psychological horror thriller The Harvest, for which Michael Shannon (Bug) and Samantha Morton (John Carter, Minority Report) have come aboard to star alongside Natasha Calis (The Possession), reports Variety. Pic co-stars Charlie Tahan (Frankenweenie), Leslie Lyles and Meadow Williams.
Written by Stephen Lancellotti, “‘The Harvest’ stars Morton and Shannon as a married couple with medical backgrounds and a sick son (Tahan) who lives secluded in a controlled environment until a young girl (Calis) moves in next door and gives him hope of a better life. As the teens grow closer, the tight-knit world his over-protective mother has created begins to unravel.”
It has been 11 years since McNaughton’s Wild Things hit theaters.
Production is under way in New York.
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