Producers Samuel Hadida and Don Carmody, the team behind the Silent Hill films and the Resident Evil franchise, announced today that Crispin Glover (Friday the 13th: The Final Chapter, Back to the Future, River’s Edge, Willard) has joined the previously announced cast including Nina Dobrev, Luke Bracey, and Michael Madsen in Oscar Award-winning writer/director Roger Avary’s newest feature Lucky Day.
“Glover has signed on to play Luc, an utterly psychopathic contract killer who is on a hunt to avenge the death of his brother, accidentally killed by American safe-cracker Red (Bracey) during a job gone wrong. Dobrev plays Red’s wife and the mother of his child (Chloe).”
Lucky Day is written and directed by Avary – who shared an Oscar with Quentin Tarantino for screenwriting on Pulp Fiction – putting him back in the director’s chair after thirteen years. Previous directorial efforts include 2002’s The Rules of Attraction and his 1993 breakout Killing Zoe.
Says Hadida: “Crispin is such an immense talent and he brings an iconic presence to any film he appears in. The character he’s playing takes malevolence to a whole new level and Crispin has the ability to give a character like this real nuance.”
Shooting will continue in Toronto through to the beginning of November.