{"id":820137,"date":"2026-08-20T18:02:09","date_gmt":"2026-08-20T18:02:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/820137\/"},"modified":"2026-08-20T18:02:09","modified_gmt":"2026-08-20T18:02:09","slug":"deify-dennis-haysbert-ashley-greene-join-horror-movie-exclusive","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/820137\/","title":{"rendered":"‘Deify’: Dennis Haysbert, Ashley Greene Join Horror Movie (EXCLUSIVE)"},"content":{"rendered":"

\n\tEXCLUSIVE:\u00a0Brother filmmakers Carmelo and Nicholas Chimera<\/a> have announced seven new principal cast members for\u00a0Deify<\/a>, their indie psychological horror film starring Neal McDonough and Skeet Ulrich, which we announced last week.<\/p>\n

\n\tDennis Haysbert<\/a> (Far from Heaven), Ashley Greene<\/a> (Twilight), Kirk Acevedo<\/a> (Dawn of the Planet of the Apes), Casey Hartnett (Terrifier 2) and Anji White<\/a> (Ironheart) are among the group. Nicholas Chimera (Unarmed), who\u2019s directing alongside Carmelo from a script he wrote on his own, will also be part of the cast, as will producer Mike Manning<\/a>, who\u2019s been seen onscreen in projects like\u00a0This Is Us.<\/p>\n

\n\tIn\u00a0Deify\u00a0\u2014 currently in production in Chicago \u2014 a cult leader is put on trial after causing his devoted followers to be burned alive. The film is inspired in part by events surrounding the 1993 Waco, Texas, standoff between members of the Branch Davidians church and the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives, one of the largest civilian firefights ever recorded on American soil.<\/p>\n

\n\tAs previously announced, Ulrich plays the enigmatic and manipulative cult leader, who pleads insanity and claims to be taking his commands directly from God. McDonough plays the assistant attorney general and prosecuting attorney, a man of integrity who profoundly believes in the criminal justice system.<\/p>\n

\n\tHaysbert plays the judge presiding over the case, with Greene as the court-appointed psychologist and cult deprogrammer who evaluates Ulrich\u2019s character. Acevedo portrays the real-life \u201cButcher of Galesburg,\u201d who was convicted in 1986 for the gruesome murder and dismemberment of his wife. Character details for the others haven\u2019t been disclosed.<\/p>\n

\n\tOther cast set for\u00a0Deify\u00a0includes Cliff Chamberlain (Homeland), Brian Glanney (There Are No Saints), Jessie Nerud (Better Call Saul), Garrett Andrew Ahrens (Find Her), Jason Potter (Yellowstone), Danny Bohnen (Murder at Yellowstone City), Scotty Bohnen (Sin Eater), Drea Berg (Things Like This), Ricardo Gamboa (The Chi) and Ritchie Ramone of rock band The Ramones.<\/p>\n

\n\tChimera Studios and J2 Productions LLC are producing, in association with Mannifest Productions. Producers include Jordan Gianneschi (The Crow), Jacob Rice (As I Lie Awake) and Manning, while McDonough and his wife, Ruv\u00e9 McDonough, are serving as executive producers. Steven Tylor O\u2019Connor (13 Reasons Why) and Becca McCracken (Somebody Somewhere) handled casting.<\/p>\n

\n\tHaysbert is repped by IAG, GS Management and Jackoway Austen Tyerman; Greene by Innovative Artists, Untitled and Gang, Tyre, Ramer; Acevedo by The Kohner Agency and Abrams Entertainment; Manning by J. Pervis and Patino Management Company; Hartnett by Talent X Alexander and Prestige Management Group; and White by Paonessa Talent Agency, Anonymous Content and Felker McGinnis & Ryan.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"EXCLUSIVE:\u00a0Brother filmmakers Carmelo and Nicholas Chimera have announced seven new principal cast members for\u00a0Deify, their indie psychological horror…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":820138,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[52],"tags":[347794,347795,347796,347797,163789,88,347798,347799,206,347800],"class_list":["post-820137","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-movies","tag-anji-white","tag-ashley-greene","tag-casey-harnett","tag-deify","tag-dennis-haysbert","tag-entertainment","tag-kirk-acevedo","tag-mike-manning","tag-movies","tag-nicholas-chimera"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/820137","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=820137"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/820137\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/820138"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=820137"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=820137"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=820137"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}