Topher Grace has joined Cristin Milioti in Buddy, an independent horror thriller from Casper Kelly.
Kelly, who co-created Adult Swim shows such as Your Pretty Face Is Going to Hell and the horror comedy viral sensation Too Many Cooks, is directing the feature and co-wrote it with Jamie King, who previously worked on the Disney+ family movie World’s Best.
Production is currently underway in Ohio.
Plot details are being kept under wraps, but the project is being described as a “new experience in horror.”
J.D. Lifshitz and Raphael Margules are producing via their BoulderLight Pictures, the production company that is having busy year with Companion, Friendship and the upcoming horror movie Weapons on their slate.
Tyler Davidson and Drew Sykes are producing for Low Spark Films, the Cleveland, Ohio, based production company that counts Emily the Criminal and Take Shelter among its credits. The company is co-financing the project.
Range Select and UTA are co-repping the project’s distribution rights.
While Grace became a bold-faced name thanks to his good-natured starring turn in now classic sitcom That ’70s Show, the actor has focused on work to upend that image.
This year alone he co-starred in The Waterfront, Kevin Williamson’s Netflix crime drama in which he played a fun and dangerous drug supplier. He also starred as a fugitive informant trying to survive a deranged Mark Wahlberg in Lionsgate action thriller Flight Risk. Last year, he appeared in A24’s well-regarded and awards-nominated psychological horror movie Heretic. Grace next appears opposite Glen Powell and Margaret Qualley in A24 thriller Huntington.
He is repped by CAA, Brillstein Entertainment Partners and Hirsch Wallerstein.