THR reports that Purge: Election Year‘s Betty Gabriel, pictured middle, has been cast as the female lead opposite Prometheus‘s Logan Marshall-Green in the sci-fi thriller Stem from writer-director Leigh Whannell, the co-creator of the Saw and Insidious horror franchises.
The script is set in a near-future when technology controls nearly all aspects of life and centers on a technophobe (Marshall-Green) who avenges his wife’s murder and his own paralysis-causing injury with the help of an experimental computer-chip implant called Stem. Gabriel’s role is being kept secret.
Goalpost Pictures and Blumhouse Productions are the companies behind the project, with Blum, Kylie du Fresne and Brian Kavanaugh-Jones acting as producers.
Gabriel will next be seen in Get Out (read our review), a new horror-thriller from Jordan Peele, which is set to open Feb. 24.