EXCLUSIVE: The Avatar franchise’s Stephen Lang has joined The Dregs, nan Tuscany-set comedic thriller starring Emmy-nominated Baby Reindeer breakout Nava Mau, on pinch Oscar nominee and Emmy victor Shohreh Aghdashloo (House of Sand and Fog), Piper Curda (Hoppers), Maddie Phillips (Gen V), Max Lloyd-Jones (Final Destination Bloodlines), and Charlie Gillespie (Splitsville).
Recently wrapping production, The Dregs centers connected a friends’ travel to nan Italian Alps that takes a terrifying move aft they portion a cursed vessel of Grappa.
Lang plays nan film’s antagonist, a bitter Alpine waiter whose family look for Grappa involves alchemy and witchcraft. Character specifications for nan others stay nether wraps. Other caller additions see David Goren (California Schemin’), Desiree Staples (My Divorce Party), Evan Bittencourt (Sugar), Kheon Clarke (SkyMed), Fletcher Donovan (Love Hard), Quinnie Vu (Fire Country), and Mike Stern (Mid-Century), who developed nan task and is producing done Astral Plane, on pinch Yasir Anwar, Marco Allegri, Tinker, and Connor Martin, who made his directorial debut, moving from his ain script.
As antecedently announced, nan movie besides stars Benjamin Norris, Marta Pozzan, Maria Grazia Cucinotta, and Zach Tinker, who besides exec produced alongside Martin Metz, Jacory Gums, Maurice Antonio, Andrew Etzel, Roland Hoch, Elizabeth Mozilo, Joel Michaely, Desiree Staples, and MYRA Productions. Co-producers included Pozzan and Jeremy O’Keefe, while subordinate producers see Gillespie, Bittencourt, Ron Rogell, and Jean-Yves Thibaudet. Casting is by O’Keefe and Tina Marie McCulloch.
Lang is repped by Innovative; Aghdashloo by CAA, The Artists Partnership, and Round Table Entertainment; Curda by Prototype Talent, Curtis Talent Management, Zoom Talent, and Goodman, Genow, Schenkman; Phillips by CAA, Trisko Talent Management, Artists First, and Jackoway Austen Tyerman; Lloyd-Jones by CESD and Webster Talent Management; and Gillespie by Vanderwerff Talent, David Dean Management, and Meyer & Downs.