Mischa Barton Floats On to Cloudland

Steve Barton   |  

May 13, 2014

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Don’t let the fluffy sounding headline fool you, kids! The situation surrounding Cloudland is much darker than you would imagine. More crazy religious cult mayhem is headed our way, this time from Final Destination creator Jeffrey Reddick. Read on for details.

The Wrap reports that Mischa Barton (pictured; “The OC”), Drew Fuller (“Army Wives”), Katie Parker (Absentia), and Dredd executive producer Adi Shankar are set to star in Cloudland, a supernatural thriller that’s quickly coming together.

Reddick created the project and will share story credit with Alex Bram, who will make his feature directorial debut with Cloudland. Bram also co-wrote the script with Martin Aguilera. Reddick will oversee production.

The story follows a young journalist (Fuller) who investigates a religious cult’s terrifying prophecy after the paranormal murder of his younger sister (Parker). Barton will play Fuller’s editor and love interest, while Shankar will play an intimidating member of the cult.

While Shankar is best known as an indie producer and film financier, he recently played an unrecognizable role alongside Ryan Reynolds and Anna Kendrick in Marjane Satrapi’s The Voices, which he also produced through his 1984 Private Defense Contractors banner.

“The more we discussed the story, the more I realized that this had such a rich mythology and strong characters, that we were talking about a franchise that I believe can be just as successful as ‘Final Destination.’ It’s a riveting, edge-of-your seat ride, and Alex and Martin Aguilera really knocked the script out of the park,” said Reddick.

VFX company PRPVFX (Evil Dead) will bring the script’s surreal elements to life, while Mark Lanza (Independence Day) will handle sound design for Cloudland, which starts production this fall in Los Angeles.

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