Lauren LaVera & Rory Culkin To Star In Horror-Thriller ‘Red Wedding’
EXCLUSIVE: The Terrifier franchise’s Lauren LaVera is set to star opposite Rory Culkin (Waco) in Red Wedding (w/t), a new horror-thriller from director Josh Stolberg and Gulfstream Pictures that has entered production in Birmingham, Alabama.
Written by Stolberg and Pete Goldfinger, who have previously collaborated on multiple entries in the Saw franchise, the film follows a teenager and her stepmother who are kidnapped and taken to a remote location as part of a ransom plot, soon discovering their captors are the least of their worries when a deadly bride and groom arrive and begin picking them off one by one.
Mike Karz and William Bindley are producing for Gulfstream alongside Amy Kim and Jamie Burke for Lifeboat Productions, with Gulfstream also financing.
The project marks the 10th that Gulfstream has recently financed in full, following a slate of titles picked up by Amazon MGM for worldwide distribution, including the upcoming Goodbye Girl starring Kiernan Shipka and Cole Sprouse.
“Red Wedding is exactly the kind of bold, high-concept genre film we love to champion — smart, unpredictable, and unapologetically intense,” said the Gulfstream principals. “Following our long relationship with Josh Stolberg as a writer, we’re excited to now work with him as a director. Along with the incredible pairing of Lauren LaVera and Rory Culkin, we’re thrilled to bring a fresh, elevated take on horror to audiences. It’s a wild ride with real character stakes.”
Best known for her breakout role as Sienna Shaw, the protagonist taking on Art the Clown, in the Terrifier franchise — from the second installment on — LaVera’s other credits include Marvel’s Iron Fist, Paramount’s Twisted and AMC’s Dispatches from Elsewhere. She is repped by CESD, Lewk, and Goodman, Genow, Schenkman.
Notable film credits for Culkin include Film Kogonada’s Columbus, Jonas Åkerlund’s Lords of Chaos and Lou Howe’s Gabriel, for which he was nominated for Breakthrough Actor at the Gotham Awards. He played Branch Davidian David Thibodeau in Paramount Network’s Waco, starring opposite Taylor Kitsch and Michael Shannon, with additional TV credits including Black Mirror, Halston and Under the Banner of Heaven, to name a few. Upcoming, he’ll be seen in Apple’s series Lazarus, based on the bestselling book series by Lars Kepler. He is repped by Paradigm and Brookside Artists Management.
Stolberg co-wrote the Saw franchise’s Jigsaw and Spiral: From the Book of Saw, with additional writing credits including Piranha 3D, Sorority Row and Skillhouse, as well as directing The Hungover Games and Feels So Good. He is repped by UTA and Circle Management and Production.
Co-writer Goldfinger is repped by Scott Carlson Entertainment.
