Joel Kinnaman Mutates In The Cell
Joel Kinnaman is set to star in a new creature feature called The Cell. Bloody Disgusting has the news, and The Hollywood Reporter first reported the casting.
Kinnaman plays Ryan Weaver, an investigative journalist about to blow the whistle on a powerful pharmaceutical company. Before he can, he wakes up locked inside a secret medical testing facility where patients are kept apart, drugged and put through disturbing experiments.
Ryan is told he is dangerously ill, but the people running the place seem more interested in studying him than curing him. Then his body starts to mutate. While he looks for a way out, he finds something in the lower levels that suggests the facility is making something far worse than the disease.
Adam Cooper, who directed the Russell Crowe thriller Sleeping Dogs, is directing. Evan Turner (Dear David) and Ben Zazove wrote the script.
Filming is set to start in February 2027. Highland Film Group is handling worldwide sales and is taking the film to buyers at AFM.
Kinnaman is best known to genre fans as Rick Flag in Suicide Squad and The Suicide Squad, and he also led the 2023 action thriller Silent Night. Dread Central notes this one is not connected to the Jennifer Lopez movie of the same name.
