Lauren Cohan, one of the better players in “The Walking Dead,” is signing on to star in The Boy, a horror thriller from Lakeshore Entertainment and Vertigo Entertainment, says THR.
William Brent Bell, who directed the awful, awful WER, as well as The Devil Inside, is helming the project, which is eyeing a March start in British Columbia.
The script, written by Stacey Menear, “centers on a nanny (Cohan) who is tasked with overseeing a lifelike doll by a bizarre couple who treat it as a real child. The couple use the doll as way to cope with the death of their young son, but the nanny becomes increasingly convinced that it is alive.”
Producing are Lakeshore’s Gary Lucchesi and Tom Rosenberg, Vertigo’s Roy Lee and Adam Stone, along with Jim Wedaa.