The creature feature will begin filming next year, with cast members already being announced. Here’s the latest info on The Cell:

Interest is brewing around the brand new horror project from Sleeping Dogs director Adam Cooper. The latest release of information includes the star that will carry the story.

What’s The Cell about?

Written by Evan Turner (Dear David) and Ben Zazove (Sherlock Gnomes), the story will follow an investigative journalist who is working on a piece that will expose a powerful pharmaceutical company. As he gets closer to the truth, he finds himself imprisoned inside a medical testing facility. Our protagonist discovers that patients are being isolated, drugged and subjected to disturbing experiments. After being told he is terminally ill, his captors appear more interested in studying him than curing him. The treatments cause him to change in unexpected ways, he looks for a way out. In his search, his makes his most horrifying discovery yet.

Who’s in it?

Joel Kinnaman (The Killing) has been cast in the lead role, with more announcements likely coming out as production continues.

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