Jay Baruchel is set to write and direct Random Acts of Violence, based on the eponymous graphic novel, and has landed Grey’s Anatomy’s Jesse Williams and The Fast And The Furious’ Jordana Brewster as his stars.
Man Seeking Woman and This Is The End star Baruchel has written and directed the road-trip horror feature and will also star. Baruchel, who wrote Seann William Scott-fronted Goon, is writing with his longtime writing partner Jesse Chabot. Production of the film has just begun in Toronto and will run through September
The film follows the story of comic book creator Todd Walkley, played by Williams, along with his girlfriend Kathy, played by Brewster, assistant Aurora, played by Niamh Wilson and best friend and Hard Calibre Comics owner Ezra, played by Baruchel as they go on a road trip. On their way from Toronto to New York for Comic-Con, bad things start to happen and people start getting killed in a fashion eerily similar to the kills portrayed in his Slasherman comic. It becomes clear that a very avid fan is out there following them and hurting people, and using Todd’s comic as inspiration. As the bodies pile up, and Todd’s friends and family become targets and victims themselves, Todd will be forced into taking responsibility for everything his ideas have wrought.
