Filming is currently underway in Chicago on Broadcast Signal Intrusion, a sci-fi horror film being helmed by The Signal co-director Jacob Gentry, Bloody Disgusting learned.
Hailing from Queensbury Pictures, the cast includes Harry Shum Jr. (Crazy Rich Asians, Glee), Kelley Mack (pictured above in “The Walking Dead”) and Chris Sullivan (This Is Us, I Trapped the Devil).
Broadcast Signal Intrusion, a technological thriller inspired by actual broadcast interruptions that occurred in the Windy City in the late 1980s, and remain unsolved to this day. The film an unsettling journey into our collective technological nightmares, confronting our deepest, darkest fears of both man and machine.
Broadcast Signal Intrusion is being described as “an unsettling journey into our collective technological nightmares” that’s “part-Zodiac and part-Lost Highway by way of Aphex Twin” and “a nerve-shredding horror film that confronts our deepest, darkest fears of both man and machine.”
“While logging tapes of decades-old TV broadcasts, video archivist James (Harry Shum Jr.) comes across a surreal and disturbing clip of what appears to be an imprisoned android. James believes it’s the product of a mysterious broadcast signal hacking, and his discovery takes a sinister turn when he tracks down similar broadcast intrusions that send him on an obsessive mission. Now James must confront two very real possibilities: that the videos may be clues to a crime beyond all comprehension; and that whoever was behind them may be very aware that James is coming uncomfortably close to the truth.”
Director Jacob Gentry has made an impressive range of films and TV movies, including the award-winning romantic mystery Synchronicity, the sci-fi thriller Night Sky, the My Super Psycho Sweet 16 trilogy and the technological thriller The Signal.
Greg Newman, Nicola Goelzhaeuser, Giles Edwards and Brett Hays are producing for Queensbury. Harry Shum Jr. is executive producer.
Broadcast Signal Intrusion is based on a feature script developed by Queensbury. It was written by Tim Woodall and Phil Drinkwater, a British writing duo who submitted the screenplay through New Blood, an initiative set up and run by Queensbury partner Giles Edwards since 2017 in partnership with the U.K.’s premier genre event Frightfest.
