The Hollywood Reporter
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THR reports that This Is the End star Jay Baruchel has signed on to play the lead role in the adaptation, a film he will also be executive producing.
Baruchel will play a smoker who returns to his old habit with a cessation drug still in his system, triggering a side effect that reveals a frightening reality in which many people in authority are monsters.
The Ten O’Clock People film, written and directed by Holland, is eying a June start in Baruchel’s hometown of Montreal.
Industry veteran Don Carmody is producing. Baruchel is exec producing with Pascal Borno, Scott Karol, E.J. Meyers, and Nathaniel Kramer.