Filming is now underway on The Boy, which stars Lauren Cohan, one of my favorite actors on “The Walking Dead”. Javier Botet and James Russell also star, we learned.
The horror thriller comes from Lakeshore Entertainment and Vertigo Entertainment, and could hit theaters as soon as January 22, 2016.
William Brent Bell, who directed the awful, awful WER, as well as The Devil Inside, is helming the project.
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.”
The film is not to be confused with Craig William Macneill’s The Boy, which is playing this weekend’s SXSW Film Festival.
