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Four More Join James Gunn’s ‘The Belko Experiment’
James Gunn took to his Facebook page to announce several more castings for his upcoming horror film The Belko Experiment.
Joining the cast are Sean Gunn (Super), Steve Agee (New Girl), Adria Arjona (True Detective), and Owain Yeoman (American Sniper).
Gunn will play, “…Marty Espenscheid, a stoner cafeteria worker who has his own ideas about who is behind Belko.” Agee will portray, “…Marty’s best friend is Chet Valincourt.” Arjona, “…will be playing one of the most pivotal characters in the film, Leandra Jerez, an American of Colombian descent who works as Barry Norris’s Chief Executive Assistant.” Finally, Yeoman will be playing, “…Terry Winters, a British family man, whose relationship to his family at home versus the close friendships he has in Belko are set against each other.”
Michael Rooker (The Walking Dead, Henry: Portrait Of A Serial Killer) is also cast in the film. The cast joins John Gallagher, Jr, Tony Goldwyn, Melonie Diaz, and John C. McGinley. Gunn has written the script and Greg McLean (Rogue, Wolf Creek) will be directing. It will be produced by James Gunn and Peter Safran.
The Broadway stage production of Paranormal Activity can’t wait to scare audiences and is acting accordingly; Deadline reports that the opening date has been bumped up several weeks.
Paranormal Activity: A New Story Live on Stage is coming to Broadway for a limited 20-week engagement. The first preview performance scheduled for Friday, August 14, at the August Wilson Theatre, remains in place. Now the play will officially open on Tuesday, August 25, moving up from its initial September 15 launch date.
The official synopsis: “James and Lou move from Chicago to London to escape their past, but they soon discover that places aren’t haunted, people are.”
Directed by Felix Barrett and written by playwright Levi Holloway, the stage show weaves “an original story inspired by the film franchise, Paranormal Activity reimagines the modern ghost story with an intimacy that only live theatre can provide.”
The Broadway production will follow a strictly limited pre-Broadway engagement in Boston at the Emerson Colonial Theatre from July 11 through July 30.
Both the Broadway and Boston casts will feature Cher Álvarez, Travis A. Knight, Shannon Cochran, and Andrea Syglowski. Understudies will be Caron Buinis, Caroline Hendricks, and Michael Holding.
Álvarez will play Lou, and Knight plays James.
Paranormal Activity: A New Story Live on Stage premiered at the Leeds Playhouse in the UK before transferring to the Ambassadors Theatre in the West End, where it received a Laurence Olivier Award nomination this year for Best Entertainment or Comedy Play.
Original Paranormal Activity stars Katie Featherston and Micah Sloat attended the Paranormal Activity play last year, and they both shared their thoughts over on Instagram.
Katie Featherston raved, “What a truly fun night seeing the new Paranormal Activity at the Ahmanson Theatre! We had a blast- so scary and so fun. The design and production was amazing and the cast did a fantastic job. Congrats to all involved!”
There’s also a brand new movie on the way.
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