Logan Marshall-Green – is best known for co-starring in Ridley Scott’s Alien-themed Prometheus and most recently starred in Karyn Kusama’s horror-thriller The Invitation – will star in Stem, a sci-fi movie written and to be directed by Leigh Whannell, the co-creator of the Saw and Insidious horror franchises, reports THR.
The script is set in a near-future when technology controls nearly all aspects of life and centers on a technophobe (Marshall-Green) who avenges his wife’s murder and his own paralysis-causing injury with the help of an experimental computer chip implant called Stem.
Blumhouse Productions is producing Stem in association with Goalpost Pictures Australia. The movie will shoot in Australia’s capital, Melbourne, which is also Whannell’s hometown.
Stem will be an Australian film produced by Goalpost and Blumhouse that will be distributed in Australia by Madman Entertainment.
Blumhouse’s Jason Blum, Kylie du Fresne and Brian Kavanaugh-Jones of Automatik Entertainment are producing.