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Horror duo The Butcher Brothers have cast their upcoming film The Beginners Guide to Snuff, setting Joey Kern (Workaholics), Luke Edwards (The Wizard), Bree Williamson (True Detective) and Brad Greenquist (Water for Elephants) to star.
The story centers on two actor brothers (Kern and Edwards) who are trying to make it in Hollywood, and decide to make a pretend snuff film to get ahead. In hopes of making it more realistic, they kidnap an actress (Williamson) so they can capture her terror on film. But they soon discover they have messed with the wrong woman. Greenquist will play the head of security at a theme park who has a dark edge to his work.
Cory Knauf, Adam Weis and Mitchell Altieri wrote the script for The Beginners Guide to Snuff. Principal photography will begin this month in Los Angeles.
A Beginners Guide to Snuff reunites the Butcher Brothers, aka Mitchell Altieri and Phil Flores, with executive producer Jeffrey Allard (Ping Pong Summer) who executive produced the duo’s 2010 film The Violent Kind, which premiered at Sundance.
Knauf, Edwards, Adam Carver and Don Lewis are producing; Jeffrey Allard and Flores are executive producing.
Kern, whose past work includes indies Asthma and Beneath and TV’s Workaholics, is repped by Abrams Artists Agency, Principato-Young Entertainment and Jackoway Tyerman.
Edwards, who produced and starred in Little Paradise, is repped by Golan & Blumberg.
Williamson’s TV work has included True Detective, Deception and Haven. She’s repped by Innovative Artists and The Group Entertainment.
Greenquist appeared in The Trials of Cate McCall, The Lone Ranger and Water for Elephants and is repped by AMT Artists and New Wave Entertainment.
The Butcher Brothers are repped by Gersh and Jeremy Platt Management.
Email: Rebecca.Ford@THR.com
Twitter: @Beccamford
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