Brenton Thwaites (The Giver, the upcoming Gods of Egypt) will star in the zombie film Office Uprising to be directed by Steven C. Miller (Silent Night, Extraction). Ian Shorr (Splinter) and Peter Gamble wrote the script and Giulia Prenna (The Evil Gene) and William Clevinger (Submerged, The Bits are Coming) are producing. According to CEO Brian O’Shea, The Exchange is bringing the project to Berlinale and EFM’16 where the company will be selling the film’s worldwide rights.
“Fans of the growing zombie genre craze are going to love Office Uprising,” said O’Shea, “We are truly excited to have cast Brenton Thwaites, a sensational, versatile young leading man who will hit the comedic notes and sell the action. Similar to Nicholas Hoult in Warm Bodies, and Jesse Eisenberg in Zombieland, Brenton Thwaites has the star quality to make Office Uprising into a breakout theatrical hit.”
Thwaites credits also include Oculus, Maleficent, Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Men Tell No Tales, Son of a Gun, The Signal, and Home and Away.
The Office Uprising Plot:
Office Uprising tells the story inside one of the worlds leading arms manufacturers where a substance is slipped into the employees’ drinks by the board of directors that supposedly makes them work more efficiently. Due to a slacker within the company though, they are fed the wrong formula and start turning into homicidal maniacs. It soon is up to the slacker to step up his game to rescue himself and his friends from the growing Zombie plague inside the company compound.
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