Academy Award winner Melissa Leo (pictured below) and Bella Thorne (Keep Watching, Amityville: The Awakening, The Babysitter) have been tapped to topline Leave Not One Alive, an indie revenge thriller written and directed by Jordan Galland, reports Deadline.
The plot follows a theater actress, “Lillian Cooper (Leo) whose son (Jake Weary) dies mysteriously. When the investigating officer (Michael Potts) rules the cause of death an accidental overdose, Lillian conducts her own investigation which leads her to an unlikely alliance with her son’s former drug dealer (Thorne). On her quest for answers, Lillian hallucinates some of the iconic characters she’s played on stage which serve as her inner voice, urging her to avenge her son’s death.”
Jake Weary (It Follows), Michael Potts (“The Wire”), Benedict Samuel (“Gotham”), Kevin Corrigan (The Departed), and Adrian Martinez (I Feel Pretty) co-star.
The pic, which is currently filming in New York, hails from Ace Pictures Entertainment and DeerJen.
Producers are Jen Gatien, Peter Wong, and Timur Bekbosunov with Ace Pictures Entertainment’s Johnny Chang and Emma Lee serving as exec producers.
