{"id":5683,"date":"2025-09-09T19:09:07","date_gmt":"2025-09-09T19:09:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/5683\/"},"modified":"2025-09-09T19:09:07","modified_gmt":"2025-09-09T19:09:07","slug":"john-travolta-crystal-reed-chet-hanks-to-star-in-ai-horror-thriller-ed","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/5683\/","title":{"rendered":"John Travolta, Crystal Reed &#038; Chet Hanks To Star In AI Horror Thriller &#8216;Ed&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto     \">\n\tEXCLUSIVE: <a href=\"https:\/\/deadline.com\/tag\/crystal-reed\/\" id=\"auto-tag_crystal-reed\" data-tag=\"crystal-reed\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Crystal Reed<\/a> (Teen Wolf: The Movie), Golden Globe winner and two-time Oscar nominee <a href=\"https:\/\/deadline.com\/tag\/john-travolta\/\" id=\"auto-tag_john-travolta\" data-tag=\"john-travolta\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">John Travolta<\/a> (Pulp Fiction), and <a href=\"https:\/\/deadline.com\/tag\/chet-hanks\/\" id=\"auto-tag_chet-hanks\" data-tag=\"chet-hanks\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Chet Hanks<\/a> (Empire) have signed on to star in <a href=\"https:\/\/deadline.com\/tag\/ed\/\" id=\"auto-tag_ed\" data-tag=\"ed\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Ed<\/a>, an AI-themed sci-fi horror thriller from director <a href=\"https:\/\/deadline.com\/tag\/christopher-j-scott\/\" id=\"auto-tag_christopher-j-scott\" data-tag=\"christopher-j-scott\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Christopher J. Scott<\/a> and the Atlanta-based <a href=\"https:\/\/deadline.com\/tag\/pangaea-studios\/\" id=\"auto-tag_pangaea-studios\" data-tag=\"pangaea-studios\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Pangaea Studios<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto     \">\n\tCurrently in production in the Georgia capital, the film centers on a sentient AI chauffeur bot that escapes the lab and begins killing reckless drivers under the guise of public safety. Its grief-stricken creator must stop the carnage before the machine evolves into the embodiment of AI gone bad.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto     \">\n\tSteve Greenberg, Anthony Short and Rich Marincic are producing Ed as the first film on a slate of genre-forward, filmmaker-driven projects at Pangaea. In a statement to Deadline, Greenberg said, \u201cWe\u2019re committed to bold storytelling that mixes big ideas with real emotion. Ed is exactly the kind of cinematic risk we\u2019re excited to take.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto     \">\n\tEd\u2018s lead, Reed, has previously been seen starring in Teen Wolf: The Movie, Pinball: The Man Who Saved the Game opposite Mike Faist, and the Warner Bros\/DC series Swamp Thing. She is repped by Untitled Entertainment and McKuin Frankel Whitehead.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto     \">\n\tTravolta comes to Ed following work on projects like Die Hart, Mob Land, Paradise City, and Gotti. He is repped by Artists First and Mitchell, Silberberg &amp; Knupp.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto     \">\n\tBoasting credits including Empire, Shameless, Maron, Greyhound and Your Honor, Hanks has most recently been seen alongside Kate Hudson on Netflix\u2019s Running Point. He\u2019s reunited with Your Honor\u2018s Bryan Cranston in Lone Wolf, an upcoming action thriller from director Mark Pellington, and is repped by Paradigm and Untitled Entertainment.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"EXCLUSIVE: Crystal Reed (Teen Wolf: The Movie), Golden Globe winner and two-time Oscar nominee John Travolta (Pulp Fiction),&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":5684,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[6756,6757,6758,6759,146,85,46,6760,6761],"class_list":{"0":"post-5683","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-entertainment","8":"tag-chet-hanks","9":"tag-christopher-j-scott","10":"tag-crystal-reed","11":"tag-ed","12":"tag-entertainment","13":"tag-il","14":"tag-israel","15":"tag-john-travolta","16":"tag-pangaea-studios"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5683","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5683"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5683\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/5684"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5683"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5683"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5683"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}