Already a genre icon for his performance as Candyman, Tony Todd has now signed on to play an “iconic new villain” in the horror mystery / genre-bending thriller Werewolf Game – which doesn’t sound like it actually involves a werewolf, but we can hope it does. Directed by Jackie Payne and Cara Brennan from a screenplay written by Payne, Werewolf Game was inspired by
the party game of social deduction invented by Dimitry Davidoff in 1986. In the film, twelve strangers are kidnapped by a social media company and forced to play a game where they vote on who amongst them to murder.
Todd is being joined in the cast by Lydia Hearst (Z Nation), Bai Ling (The Crow), Teala Dunn (Are We There Yet?), and Robert Picardo (The Howling). That’s a pretty cool cast to drop into a story like this.
According to Deadline, Werewolf Game will be “drawing on the raw intensity of anime and the chilling atmosphere of retro horror”, and is “crafted to be PG-13 to enrapture teen and adult audiences alike”. The film is coming to us from Different Duck Films founder Rob Margolies (Bobcat Moretti), who is producing it with Gretel Snyder. Margolies discovered the screenplay, and the project won the top prize at his annual First Frame International Film Festival: a production deal.
Todd provided the following statement:
My roots as an actor are grounded in theater, which is why my iconic character in Werewolf Game strongly appeals to me, much like Immortal (2020), my first collaboration with Margolies.”
Werewolf Game is expected to start filming in Los Angeles very soon. The actual werewolf game has been around for a while, but I wasn’t aware of it until Andrew Garfield brought it up while trying to deny that he was in Spider-Man: No Way Home.
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