EXCLUSIVE: Chloë Grace Moretz (Kick-Ass) has been set to star in serial-killer thriller The Edge of Normal, the first English-language feature from Piggy director Carlota Pereda.
The pic was written by Matt Venne (Dexter: Resurrection) with revisions by Lori Evans Taylor (Final Destination: Bloodlines), based on Carla Norton’s novel from St. Martin’s Press.
The synopsis: Reeve LeClaire is still haunted from when she was held captive as a teenager by a sadistic man, but when her psychiatrist asks her to mentor a newly rescued survivor, she’s pulled into a chilling game of cat-and-mouse—one that threatens to drag her back into the nightmare she barely escaped.
XYZ Films is producing and financing with funding from IPR.VC. Vanishing Angle will produce alongside Andrew Deane and Ava Jamshidi for Industry Entertainment. Filming is due to begin this spring.
Pereda’s debut feature Piggy (Cerdita) had its world premiere at the Sundance Film Festival in 2022 and was released by Magnolia Pictures. The project was selected in 2020 at script stage for the Cannes Film Festival’s Focus Coproduction Initiative. Pereda’s short it is based on won the Spanish Academy Goya Award for Best Short Film in 2019. She has also worked in TV, most notably with Money Heist creator Alex Pina.
Grace Moretz will next be seen in Michael Showalter’s Oh What Fun opposite Michelle Pfeiffer and Felicity Jones for Amazon MGM as well as Joey Powers’ Love Language opposite Anthony Ramos.
Upcoming titles from XYZ Films include The Trip starring Jason Segel, Samara Weaving, Juliette Lewis and Timothy Olyphant, which is currently in production; Havoc, directed by Gareth Evans and starring Tom Hardy and Forrest Whitaker which premieres on Netflix this year; and SXSW title Ash starring Eiza González and Aaron Paul and directed by Flying Lotus, releasing wide in March from IFC.
Chloë Grace Moretz is represented by CAA and Sloane, Offer. Carlota Pereda is represented by CAA and XYZ. Matt Venne is represented by IAG and Heroes and Villains Entertainment and Jackoway Austen. Lori Evans Taylor is represented by WME, Kaplan / Perrone Entertainment and McKuin Frankel Whitehead. Norton is repped by Liza Dawson Associates and IAG.
