Billy Zane, Kevin Chapman, and C.S. Lee Join Creature Feature 'Wekiwa'
Billy Zane, Kevin Chapman, and C.S. Lee have joined Alex Trumble in the cast of Wekiwa, an original creature feature set in the summer of 1983, Deadline reported on 20 August 2026.
The film is written and directed by Richard L. Anderson, a sound veteran whose career spans some of the most distinctive aural landscapes in American cinema. Anderson received a Special Achievement Academy Award for his sound work on Raiders of the Lost Ark, shared with Ben Burtt. He earned further Oscar nominations for Poltergeist and Daylight, and won an Emmy for Steven Spielberg's anthology series Amazing Stories. Wekiwa marks a feature directing turn for a craftsman whose credits have lived, until now, behind the mixing board.
The premise has a period hook. A showman, played by Trumble, has sunk every dollar into a resort on a Florida island the Seminole have warned about for three hundred years. Zane plays a British documentary director who arrives with four young performers to shoot a commercial. A county marine biologist turns up to find out what is wrong with the lagoon, and nobody on the island will say what is in the water.
Chapman and Lee round out the principal additions, alongside an ensemble that includes Oliver Wyman, Ty Neckar, Tyler Steelman, and newcomers Xhaania Wright and Caroline Jane West. Salomé Breziner and Scott Rosenfelt produce. On the representation side, Zane is with Paradigm, Lee with Lighthouse, and Chapman with Stride Management.
Principal photography begins at the start of September in the Orlando area, placing the shoot in the heart of central Florida's wetland country — a fitting backdrop for a story about something lurking in the water.
For Anderson, Wekiwa pairs his sound instincts with full creative control. A creature feature lives or dies on what the audience hears before it sees, and few people working in the medium have spent more time in that gap between the rustle and the reveal.
