Paramount Pictures is rounding out the cast of its horror film Vicious, with six new actresses coming aboard to star 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 film from Atlas Independent follows a young woman (Fanning) who is given a strange present from a late-night visitor.
After receiving this the woman realizes she’s slowly slipping down a dark and disturbing rabbit hole contained inside this ‘gift.’
No details were given about the characters that all of the new cast members will be playing in the film.
Paramount Pictures is rounding out the cast of its horror film Vicious, with six new actresses coming aboard to star 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 aboard the project in late February, setting an August 8, 2025 release date.
As of now, it will be going up against director Paul Thomas Anderson’s untitled film that 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 isn’t known if the film will be going into production any time soon, though it seems likely with casting ramping up.
Fanning made history as the youngest ever actor to receive a Screen Actors Guild Award at just eight years of age for her work in 2001’s I Am Sam.
While she’s continuing to work regularly at 30, Fanning recently opened up about the importance of having kids in the future, in an interview with Net-A-Porter.
While she’s continuing to work regularly at 30, Fanning recently opened up about the importance of having kids in the future, in an interview with Net-A-Porter .
‘Being an actor is a huge part of my identity. I don’t really know who I am without it,’ Fanning admitted.
Hunter most recently played Swinney in Oscar-nominated Poor Things and Eedy Karn on 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 most 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 huge part of my identity. I don’t really know who I am without it,’ Fanning admitted.
‘But I also have a desire to set up my life and career so that I always have a choice,” Fanning continued.
‘Having kids is probably more important to me than anything, even being an actor. If somebody said I had to choose, I would choose having kids,’ she said.
Hunter most recently played Swinney in Oscar-nominated Poor Things and Eedy Karn on 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 most 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.
