Carrie-Anne Moss Joins Halsey's Horror Film Replacer
Carrie-Anne Moss has joined the cast of Replacer, a psycho-sexual horror film, alongside singer Halsey and actor Avan Jogia, according to Deadline. The film is a horror story with a strong focus on the mind and on desire, a mix that genre fans will recognise.
Halsey plays Proxy, a troubled DJ at the centre of the story. She also wrote the script, and Jogia directs. Karl Glusman and Juliette Gariépy also star.
The story is set in Montreal. It follows an underground radio station whose broadcasts start to warp after a mysterious signal rises from beneath the city's subway system. The film has recently finished shooting in Montreal, so the production has moved from the set to the editing room.
Lilly Wachowski, one of the makers of The Matrix, is an executive producer on the project. Boys Noize, the electronic music producer whose real name is Alex Ridha, will write the score. Music matters a great deal in a film about a radio station, so the choice of composer gives the sound design a clear identity.
On the business side, UTA Independent Film Group and CAA Media Finance represent the film's North American rights. North American rights cover the United States and Canada, and a rights representative tries to find a distributor willing to release a film in those territories. Sales teams from talent agencies often take on this job for independent projects, and they usually approach buyers well before a film is finished.
Casting news like this tends to arrive months or years before a film reaches cinemas. Each name added to a project helps a sales team pitch the film to distributors and to audiences, and each one reflects a series of decisions by producers, agents and financiers. For now, the cast list is the clearest picture of how Replacer is taking shape.
