Horror director Joe Dante has added three cast members to his latest project, Labirintus. In an exclusive scoop this morning, Variety reported that Mark Webber, Rachel Hurd-Wood, and Lorant Deutsch have signed on to star in the film.
“Labirintus tells the story of a paranormal investigator (Webber), psychiatric researcher (Hurd-Wood) and engineer (Deutsch) who join forces to explore an abandoned subterranean Soviet research facility, hidden within the dark twisting catacombs beneath Buda Castle. When supernatural forces confound and torment the group they begin to question their own sanity. To escape they must quash their fears and lead their team to find and destroy the dark heart of the maze” (Bloody Disgusting).
Dante, whose recent credits include The Howling, Gremlins, and Small Soldiers, stated “Mark, Rachel, and Lorant are phenomenal actors and I am delighted to be working with them in what I anticipate will be a suspenseful, compelling, spine-tingling chiller.”
The film is written by Alan Campbell, and produced by Metaluna Productions’ Fabrice Lambot, Mukerjee-Brown Productions’ Lucy Mukerjee-Brown, Elizabeth Stanley Pictures, and Forecast Pictures’ Jean-Charles Levy. Goldcrest has Nick Quested and Pascal Degove as executive procuders.
Webber’s most recent appearance on the screen was in the Toronto Film Festival hit, Green Room. The actor has also appeared in Scott Pilgrim vs The World, Happy Christmas, and Explicit Ills.
Hurd-Wood gained her first recognitions as an actress playing Wendy darling in P.J. Hogan’s 2003 Peter Pan. She’s also been seen in An American Haunting, Perfume: The Story of a Murderer, Dorian Gray, and Soloman Kane.
You can see Deutsch soon, in The Visitors: Bastille Day. Executive producer Degove gave this statement about the upcoming horror flick:
“Joe’s planning to deliver a chilling thrill for audiences and having the right cast is essential in achieving that. It’s very exciting to have Rachel, Mark, and Lorant on board and to be shooting so soon” (Variety).
