{"id":26562,"date":"2025-09-16T21:41:08","date_gmt":"2025-09-16T21:41:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/26562\/"},"modified":"2025-09-16T21:41:08","modified_gmt":"2025-09-16T21:41:08","slug":"nice-people-horror-comedy-directed-by-ready-or-not-star-announces-ensemble-cast","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/26562\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8216;Nice People&#8217; &#8211; Horror Comedy Directed by &#8216;Ready or Not&#8217; Star Announces Ensemble Cast"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Next up from Ready or Not actor-turned-director Mark O\u2019Brien (<a class=\"editor-rtfLink\" href=\"https:\/\/bloody-disgusting.com\/reviews\/3678415\/fantasia-review-the-righteous-slow-burn-religious-thriller-thatll-creep-skin\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">The Righteous<\/a>) is the dark horror comedy Nice People, and <a href=\"https:\/\/deadline.com\/2025\/09\/sosie-bacon-chloe-bennet-keean-johnson-skyler-astin-nice-people-1236545528\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">Deadline<\/a> reports that it\u2019s found its ensemble cast.<\/p>\n<p>O\u2019Brien will also star in the film alongside <a class=\"editor-rtfLink\" href=\"https:\/\/bloody-disgusting.com\/interviews\/3734228\/smile-lead-sosie-bacon-on-physically-demanding-role-and-favorite-horror-movies\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">Sosie Bacon<\/a> (Smile),\u00a0Chloe Bennet\u00a0(Dave), Keean Johnson (Alita: Battle Angel),\u00a0Skylar Astin (Ghosts of War),\u00a0Ayden Mayeri (Confess, Fletch),\u00a0Ella Travolta, and Matias Lucas (The Order).<\/p>\n<p>Nice People follows \u201cseven former friends reunite at an abandoned clinic that hides their terrible secret. The evening spirals into paranoia, dark humor, and deadly choices as, one after another, they begin to die.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The horror comedy is based on an original screenplay by Arwen Elys Dayton.<\/p>\n<p>O\u2019Brien said in a statement, \u201cI couldn\u2019t be more excited to work with these incredible producers, actors, and creatives. This film is a wild ride, a relentlessly propulsive story that I have no doubt will give audiences a unique thrill\u2013lingering long after they\u2019ve seen it.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Producers on the project include Damiano Tucci, Dayton, Sophia Banks, Luke Watson, Vinny Lingham, Kevin Carter, and Mark O\u2019Neill. Bacon and Kevin Hussey will executive produce, with production set to begin this month.<\/p>\n<p>Stay tuned.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Next up from Ready or Not actor-turned-director Mark O\u2019Brien (The Righteous) is the dark horror comedy Nice People,&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":26563,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[156,26570,409,111,139,26571,69,26572],"class_list":["post-26562","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-movies","tag-entertainment","tag-mark-obrien","tag-movies","tag-new-zealand","tag-newzealand","tag-nice-people","tag-nz","tag-sosie-bacon"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26562","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=26562"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26562\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/26563"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=26562"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=26562"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=26562"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}