Kate Siegel & David Dastmalchian To Star In Zombie Pic ‘Epilogue’ For EP Mike Flanagan; ‘Terrifier’ Outfit The Coven Launches For AFM
EXCLUSIVE: Scream queen Kate Siegel (Midnight Mass) and David Dastmalchian (Late Night with The Devil, Oppenheimer) are set to star in the action-horror Epilogue.
Michael Fimognari (The Fall of the House of Usher) will helm the film which is penned by Luke Barnett and Tanner Thomason.
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Set one year after the zombie apocalypse has supposedly come to an end, the film will follow a desperate couple who set out to find a cure for their infected daughter.
Coming off box office hit Terrifier 3, which has reached $60M worldwide and climbing, The Coven will launch sales next week at the American Film Market.
Pic is being produced by Todd Garner (Mortal Kombat) for Broken Road Productions, Siegel, Courtney Petrakis, Brittney McDade, and genre doyen Mike Flanagan (Doctor Sleep) for Red Room Pictures.
Siegel and Dastmalchian are both coming off The Life of Chuck, Flanagan’s film that took top honors at this year’s Toronto International Film Festival. Siegel most recently made her directorial debut with the seventh installment of Shudder’s series V/H/S/Beyond and re-released the cult pic Hush, which she co-wrote with Flanagan.
Dastmalchian most recently starred in Oscar winner Oppenheimer from director Christopher Nolan. He also recently led and produced the IFC Films/Shudder film Late Night with the Devil which became IFC’s most successful release to date. He will next be seen in Murderbot opposite Alexander Skarsgaard for AppleTV+, Dust Bunny for eOne from director Bryan Fuller, and the second season of the hit series OnePiece for Netflix.
Fimognari will both direct and lens the film. A long-time collaborator and DP for Flanagan, his directing credits include half of the eight-episode series The Fall of the House of Usher. He recently directed Jingle Bell Heist for Netflix and also helmed the To All the Boys I’ve Loved Before sequels for the streamer.
Siegel is repped by Paradigm, Stride Management, and VanderKloot Law. Dastmalchian is repped by Atlas Artists and Hansen, Jacobson. Fimognari is repped by WME, Holly Jeter, and Sloane, Offer. Barnett and Thomason are repped by Kaplan-Stahler, Stride Management, and attorney Chris Abramson.
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