EXCLUSIVE: Crystal Reed (Teen Wolf: The Movie), Golden Globe winner and two-time Oscar nominee John Travolta (Pulp Fiction), and Chet Hanks (Empire) have signed on to star in Ed, an AI-themed sci-fi horror thriller from director Christopher J. Scott and the Atlanta-based Pangaea Studios.
Currently in production in the Georgia capital, the film centers on a sentient AI chauffeur bot that escapes the lab and begins killing reckless drivers under the guise of public safety. Its grief-stricken creator must stop the carnage before the machine evolves into the embodiment of AI gone bad.
Steve Greenberg, Anthony Short and Rich Marincic are producing Ed as the first film on a slate of genre-forward, filmmaker-driven projects at Pangaea. In a statement to Deadline, Greenberg said, “We’re committed to bold storytelling that mixes big ideas with real emotion. Ed is exactly the kind of cinematic risk we’re excited to take.”
Ed‘s lead, Reed, has previously been seen starring in Teen Wolf: The Movie, Pinball: The Man Who Saved the Game opposite Mike Faist, and the Warner Bros/DC series Swamp Thing. She is repped by Untitled Entertainment and McKuin Frankel Whitehead.
Travolta comes to Ed following work on projects like Die Hart, Mob Land, Paradise City, and Gotti. He is repped by Artists First and Mitchell, Silberberg & Knupp.
Boasting credits including Empire, Shameless, Maron, Greyhound and Your Honor, Hanks has most recently been seen alongside Kate Hudson on Netflix’s Running Point. He’s reunited with Your Honor‘s Bryan Cranston in Lone Wolf, an upcoming action thriller from director Mark Pellington, and is repped by Paradigm and Untitled Entertainment.