EXCLUSIVE: Director Jason Perlman’s Bad Influence has rounded out the cast of the YA horror film, which has recently wrapped filming.
Joining the ensemble, which includes previously announced stars Xochitl Gomez, Madeleine McGraw and Jack Champion, are John Cho (Your Mother Your Mother Your Mother, Harold & Kumar), Ethan Suplee (Twisted Metal, My Name Is Earl), Danny Jolles (Hacks, Crazy Ex-Girlfriend), Arnas Fedaravičius (The White Lotus), Ana Ortiz (Imperfect Women, Ugly Betty), Jacob Vargas (Sons of Anarchy, National Treasure: Edge of History) and Michelle Macedo (High Potential).
From screenwriter Brandon Cohen, Bad Influence is described as a modern-day Thelma & Louise fueled by female rage, following Isabelle (McGraw) and Kira (Gomez) on a road trip home for spring break, when they pick up mysterious hitchhiker (Liam), who is not what he seems.
Bad Influence producers are Debbie Liebling, Joel David Moore and Zachary Burgess. Moore and Liebling previously collaborated on Dodgeball: A True Underdog Story (2004) and Grandma’s Boy (2006). Executive producers include Steven Silverstein, Cathy Raduns, Raymond Merrill, Carmelo Chimera, Syed Ali Saeed, Denis Schoenhofer, Natalie Kline, Jarod Einsohn and Michelle and Melissa Macedo.
Cho is repped by UTA, 3 Arts and Yorn Levine; Suplee by Paradigm, Nicole Garcia Management and Hansen Jacobson; Jolles by Innovative Artists, Framework Entertainment, and Knol Hanly Garrett; Fedaravičius by The Artists Partnership and Link Entertainment; and Ortiz by Gersh Agency.
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