Famke Janssen, Brett Gelman, Sharlto Copley & More Join Action-Thriller ‘Boy Kills World’ From Producer Sam Raimi
deadline.comEXCLUSIVE: Famke Janssen (X-Men franchise), Brett Gelman (Stranger Things), Sharlto Copley (District 9), Quinn Copeland (Peacock’s Punky Brewster) and twins Cameron and Nicholas Crovetti (Big Little Lies) have joined the cast of Boy Kills World, an upcoming action-thriller produced by Sam Raimi and more.They’re set to star alongside previously announced cast members including Bill Skarsgård, Yayan Ruhian, Jessica Rothe, Andrew Koji and Isaiah Mustafa.Based on an original idea by German filmmaker Moritz Mohr, who here makes his feature directorial debut, Boy Kills World is billed as a one-of-a-kind action spectacle set in a dystopian fever dream reality.
It centers on Boy (Skarsgård), a deaf mute with a vibrant imagination. When his family is murdered, Boy escapes to the jungle and is trained by a mysterious shaman (Ruhian) to repress his childish imagination and become an instrument of death.
Portraying the film’s antagonists—the Van Der Koy family—are Janssen as matriarch Hilda, Gelman as Gideon and Copley as Glen.
Copeland will play a character known as Mina, with the Crovetti twins portraying a young version of Skarsgård’s Boy.Arend Remmers (Sløborn) and Tyler Burton Smith (Kung Fury: The Movie) penned the script.
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