{"id":339360,"date":"2025-12-09T17:19:07","date_gmt":"2025-12-09T17:19:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/339360\/"},"modified":"2025-12-09T17:19:07","modified_gmt":"2025-12-09T17:19:07","slug":"david-dastmalchian-joins-ella-balinska-in-horror-kill-screen","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/339360\/","title":{"rendered":"David Dastmalchian Joins Ella Balinska In Horror &#8216;Kill Screen&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto     \">\n\tEXCLUSIVE: The Dark Knight and Ant-Man star <a href=\"https:\/\/deadline.com\/tag\/david-dastmalchian\/\" id=\"auto-tag_david-dastmalchian\" data-tag=\"david-dastmalchian\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">David Dastmalchian<\/a> has signed on to star opposite Charlie\u2019s Angels and Resident Evil series actress Ella Balinska in Concourse Media\u2019s upcoming horror-thriller <a href=\"https:\/\/deadline.com\/tag\/kill-screen\/\" id=\"auto-tag_kill-screen\" data-tag=\"kill-screen\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Kill Screen<\/a> (previously known as The Horror Game).<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto     \">\n\tCurrently in pre-production, the film heralds from Wolf Creek and Jungle director Greg McLean. Screenplay comes from Gus Krieger (Old Henry).<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto     \">\n\tIn Kill Screen, desperate to find her missing sister, a young woman (Balinska) and her three friends are drawn into a mysterious virtual reality horror game. Each level forces them to survive an entirely different horror subgenre\u2014from slashers to supernatural, zombie horror to psychological. When they learn that dying in the game means dying in real life, the friends must outthink and outfight the game\u2019s sadistic creator (Dastmalchian) before their luck runs out.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto     \">\n\tPic is produced by Tyler Condon under his production banner CinemaWays, alongside Matthew Shreder of Concourse Media.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto     \">\n\tRecently seen in Mike Flanagan\u2019s Stephen King adaptation The Life of Chuck and Christopher Nolan\u2019s Oppenheimer, Dastmalchian recently starred alongside Alexander Skarsg\u00e5rd in Apple series Murderbot, and in Magnolia\u2019s Late Night with the Devil. Known for his villain turns, he also recently appeared in Dexter: Resurrection, and will next appear in season two of Netflix\u2019s One Piece as Mr. 3. and as the villain, M. Bison, in the upcoming Street Fighter franchise reboot from Legendary\/Paramount. <\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto     \">\n\t\u201cKill Screen is built for a generation raised on horror and interactive storytelling,\u201d said producer Tyler Condon. \u201cIt\u2019s terrifying, smart, and wildly entertaining \u2013 a movie that celebrates the genre while reinventing it. Greg\u2019s potent vision and Gus\u2019s script deliver a cinematic world that fans will want to explore again and again.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto     \">\n\t\u201cGenre-savvy, high-concept horror is proving to be dynamic in the current marketplace,\u201d added Concourse\u2019s Shreder. \u201cKill Screen taps directly into that demand with a concept that pays homage to every horror sub-genre ever imagined \u2013 while offering something completely new.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto     \">\n\tDastmalchian is represented by Atlas Artists and Hansen, Jacobson, Teller.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"EXCLUSIVE: The Dark Knight and Ant-Man star David Dastmalchian has signed on to star opposite Charlie\u2019s Angels and&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":339361,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[52],"tags":[86093,88,170662,206],"class_list":{"0":"post-339360","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-movies","8":"tag-david-dastmalchian","9":"tag-entertainment","10":"tag-kill-screen","11":"tag-movies"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/339360","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=339360"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/339360\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/339361"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=339360"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=339360"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=339360"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}