According to The Hollywood Reporter, HEROES star Hayden Panettiere has signed on for a lead role in high school-set horror, DOWNERS GROVE, along with Nikki Reed (TWILIGHT) and Rebecca De Mornay (THE HAND THAT ROCKS THE CRADLE).
AMERICAN PYSCHO author, Bret Easton Ellis, has sorted out the screenplay for Myriad Pictures, and Nelson McCormick (PROM NIGHT) is expected to direct.
Based on the novel by Michael Hornberg, the movie is set in a Chicago high school where every year one senior dies a strange and horrifying death before final exams are over. Creepy…
Filming is set to start this spring in Louisiana.
