Rupert Friend Joins Chloë Grace-Moretz In Thriller ‘The Edge Of Normal’ From ‘Piggy’ Director

EXCLUSIVE: Companion and Homeland star Rupert Friend is joining Chloë Grace-Moretz in serial killer thriller The Edge Of Normalwhich is due to start filming this spring.

As we revealed last week, this is the first English-language feature from director Carlota Pereda (Piggy). Pic was written by Matt Venne (Dexter: Resurrection) with revisions by Lori Evans Taylor (Final Destination: Bloodlines), based on Carla Norton’s novel of the same name from St. Martin’s Press.

XYZ Films is producing and financing with funding from IPR.VC. Vanishing Angle will produce alongside Andrew Deane and Ava Jamshidi for Industry Entertainment. CAA Media Finance is co-repping domestic sales with XYZ.

The synopsis reads: “Reeve LeClaire (Moretz) is still haunted from when she was held captive as a teenager by a sadistic man, but when her psychiatrist (Friend) asks her to mentor a newly rescued survivor, she’s pulled into a chilling game of cat-and-mouse—one that threatens to drag her back into the nightmare she barely escaped.”

Emmy winner Friend starred in New Line’s Companion earlier this year, and had two films at the Berlin Film Festival: Michel Franco’s Dreams and Lucio Castro’s After this Death. He will next be seen in Jurassic World: Rebirth and Wes Anderson’s The Phoenician Scheme.

He is repped by UTA, Brillstein Entertainment Partners and Hansen, Jacobson.