Actress/singer
Bella Thorne (
"I Still See You",
"Amityville: The Awakening") has signed on to star in the upcoming sci-fi horror film
"The Friendship Game". The film will be directed by Canadian filmmaker
Scooter Corkle (
"Hollow in the Land") from a script by
Damien Ober, whose credits include writing segments for Netflix's sci-fi series
"The OA".
The story follows a group of teens in a small town as they come across a strange object that tests their loyalties to each other with increasingly destructive consequences the deeper into the game they go.
Production is expected to begin in August in Vancouver. Thorne and Ober are also on board as executive producers along with
Gabriel Chicoine, Zak Kilberg and
Anisi and Greg Schenz. The film will be shopped at this year's Cannes Film Festival, which opens May 14.
Thorne's Freeform series
"Famous in Love" was canceled last year after two seasons. She has finished filming the fantasy drama series
"Paradise City", and she is also set to star in
Jordan Galland's thriller
"Leave Not One Alive", the crime drama
"Southland",
Chad Faust's thriller
"Girl" and
Cedric Nicolas-Troyan's sci-fi thriller
"Exo".
