They may not be a-listers, but a load of great talent has joined the comedy Sexy Evil Genius, with Seth Green, Michelle Trachtenberg, William Baldwin, and Harold Perrineau joining Katee Sackhoff in the film, according to Variety.
Sexy Evil Genius is a dark comedy about an eclectic group of strangers invited to a downtown Los Angeles bar by a mutual ex-lover, Nikki Franklyn (Sackhoff). She’s a maddeningly sexy, unpredictable and possibly insane young woman who’s recently gotten out of prison for murdering her last ex-boyfriend. The party really gets started when Nikki arrives, hauling her latest lover and fiancée, the morally-challenged lawyer who’s been handling her case. She’s mysterious about her intentions and her current and former lovers soon realise they are all caught in one of her brilliant, mischievous mind-games, with possible deadly consequences. It’s not clear who all the new cast members will play, but presumably they’ll mainly be exes.
One of the more interesting aspects of the movie is that it’s scripted by Scott Lew, a veteran TV writer, producer and director, who was diagnosed with ALS (more commonly known as Motor Neurone Disease over here), and who can now only communicate via the written word. e is almost fully paralysed and writes by moving his head in slight motions that connect to a digital keyboard screen. He wrote and directed the film Bickford Shmeckler’s Cool Ideas in the early years of his diagnosis, but has been solely focused on writing as his condition has worsened.
Shawn Piller (TV’s Dead Zone and Greek) will direct.