According to Deadline, thriller Broadcast Signal Intrusion, which is filming in Chicago, has added Crazy Rich Asians and Glee star Harry Shum Jr. and Chris Sullivan from This Is Us to its cast.
Jacob Gentry (Synchronicity) is helming the feature which is inspired by real broadcast interruptions that occurred in the Windy City in the late 1980s.
According to the article, Shum Jr., also known for his role in Disney-ABC’s Shadowhunters, will play a video archivist who comes across a surreal and disturbing clip of what appears to be an imprisoned android.
Broadcast Signal Intrusion is being described as “an unsettling journey into our collective technological nightmares” that’s “part-Zodiac and part-Lost Highway by way of Aphex Twin” and “a nerve-shredding horror film that confronts our deepest, darkest fears of both man and machine.”
“While logging tapes of decades-old TV broadcasts, video archivist James (Harry Shum Jr.) comes across a surreal and disturbing clip of what appears to be an imprisoned android. James believes it’s the product of a mysterious broadcast signal hacking, and his discovery takes a sinister turn when he tracks down similar broadcast intrusions that send him on an obsessive mission. Now James must confront two very real possibilities: that the videos may be clues to a crime beyond all comprehension; and that whoever was behind them may be very aware that James is coming uncomfortably close to the truth.”
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Greg Newman, Nicola Goelzhaeuser, Giles Edwards and Brett Hays are producing for UK and U.S.-based genre firm Queensbury Pictures. Shum Jr. is an executive producer. Writers are Brit duo Tim Woodall and Phil Drinkwater who submitted the screenplay through New Blood, an initiative set up and run by Queensbury partner Edwards in partnership with UK genre event Frightfest.
Queensbury’s first production, the psychological horror film Girl On The Third Floor, debuted this year at SXSW and will be released by Dark Sky Films at the end of the month.
That film also shot in Chicago.
SOURCE: Deadline
