Paramount Pictures is rounding out the cast of the horror film Vicious, with six new actresses starring alongside Dakota Fanning.
Kathryn Hunter (Poor Things), Mary McCormack (Heels), Rachel Blanchard (The Summer I Turned Pretty), Devyn Nekoda (Scream VI), Klea Scott (Milennium) and Emily Mitchell (Ordinary Angels) have signed on to star, via Deadline.
The Atlas Independent film follows a young woman (Fanning) who receives a strange gift from a late visitor.
After receiving this, the woman realizes that she is slowly sliding down a dark and disturbing rabbit hole that this ‘gift’ contains.
No details have been given about the characters that all the new cast members will play in the film.
Paramount Pictures is rounding out the cast of the horror film Vicious, with six new actresses starring alongside Dakota Fanning
Kathryn Hunter (Poor Things), Mary McCormack (Heels), Rachel Blanchard (The Summer I Turned Pretty), Devyn Nekoda (Scream VI), Klea Scott (Milennium) and Emily Mitchell (Ordinary Angels) have signed on to star, via Deadline .
Paramount came on board the project in late February and set a release date of August 8, 2025.
As of now, the film will compete against director Paul Thomas Anderson’s untitled film, which is currently in production with Leonardo DiCaprio and Sean Penn.
Bryan Bertino will direct Vicious from his own original screenplay, with Richard Suckle (Wonder Woman) producing and Melinda Whitaker executive producing.
Bertino is best known for writing and directing the 2008 horror film The Strangers, along with 2014’s Mockingbird, 2016’s The Monster and 2020’s The Dark and the Wicked.
It’s unknown if the film will go into production anytime soon, although it seems likely as the cast increases.
Fanning made history as the youngest actor ever to receive a Screen Actors Guild Award at the age of eight for her work in 2001’s I Am Sam.
Although she still works regularly at 30, Fanning recently opened up in an interview about the importance of having children in the future. Net-A-Porter.
While she continues to work regularly at age 30, Fanning recently opened up about the importance of having children in the future in an interview with Net-A-Porter.
‘Being an actor is a big part of my identity. I don’t really know who I am without it,” Fanning admitted.
Hunter most recently played Swinney in the Oscar-nominated Poor Things and Eedy Karn in the Star Wars series Andor
McCormack most recently starred in the Starz series Heels and guest-starred on an episode of The L Word: Generation Q
Blanchard recently played Susannah in Netflix’s The Summer I Turned Pretty and Emma Trakarsky in You Me Her
Eight-year-old Mitchell played a young Priscilla Presley in Priscilla and stars in the new film Ordinary Angels
Nekodo played Anika Kayoko in Scream VI and Scott starred in Pretty Little Liars.
‘Being an actor is a big part of my identity. I don’t really know who I am without it,” Fanning admitted.
“But I also have the desire to organize my life and career in such a way that I always have a choice,” Fanning continued.
“Having children is probably more important to me than anything, even as an actor. “If someone told me I had to choose, I would choose to have children,” she said.
Hunter most recently played Swinney in the Oscar-nominated Poor Things and Eedy Karn in the Star Wars series Andor.
McCormack most recently starred in the Starz series Heels and guest-starred in an episode of The L Word: Generation Q.
Blanchard recently played Susannah in Netflix’s The Summer I Turned Pretty and Emma Trakarsky in You Me Her.
Eight-year-old Mitchell played a young Priscilla Presley in Priscilla and stars in the new film Ordinary Angels.
Nekodo played Anika Kayoko in Scream VI and Scott starred in Pretty Little Liars.