Details
Union:
Union
Area of media:
Feature Film
Network:
Paid?:
Yes
Rates:
ACTRA
Deadline:
Aug 11, 2023
Shooting starts:
Sept 18, 2023
Shooting finishes:
Nov 7, 2023
Shooting locations:
Winnipeg & environs
Cities for response:
Winnipeg
Comments
We are committed to diverse, inclusive casting. For every role, please submit qualified performers, without regard to disability, race and ethnicity, age, color, or national origin. ALL ROLES BELOW ARE OPEN TO ARTISTS OF ANY RACE. Self-tapes preferred. Please approach all dialogue with Standard American English. ...Here's a link with some additional background on this project: https://deadline.com/2022/10/smile-producers-line-up-slasher-horror-clown-in-a-cornfield-protagonist-launches-sales-afm-1235157146/
Storyline
In a fading Midwestern town, the local legend of ‘Frendo The Clown’ becomes all too real as teenagers start to go missing one by one, before meeting spectacularly sticky ends. ...Based upon Adam Cesare’s award-winning young adult novel, comes a terrifyingly enjoyable and thrilling old school horror-comedy for a new generation.
Roles
| Role type | Role | Gender & Age range |
| Lead | Quinn Maybrook | Female 17 - 17 Years old |
Description 18+ TO PLAY YOUNGER (character written as 17). High-school senior Quinn Maybrook and her father Glenn have re-located to a small Mid-western town, Kettle Springs. ...Just months ago, her mother died. While navigating her own deep loss, Quinn carries the burden of being her father’s primary emotional support - which leads her to sometimes seem like a wise-cracking rebel. Although she misses her friends and life in the city, Quinn has chosen to support her father in this move and put his needs before her own - just as long as there’s decent wifi at their new house. So she tries her best to give Kettle Springs a chance, quickly making new friends at school, and even falls for a boy in her class, Cole Hill. Although Quinn is a very mature, intelligent young woman, she’s still a teen-ager who butts heads with her father, trying to carve out her own identity and independence. ONLY SUBMIT ARTISTS WHO ARE EIGHTEEN YEARS OF AGE BY SEPTEMBER 18, 2023. ...PLEASE ONLY SUBMIT TOP TALENT WITH LEAD CREDITS. | ||
| Role type | Role | Gender & Age range |
| Lead | Cole Hill | Male 17 - 17 Years old |
Description 18+ TO PLAY YOUNGER (character written as 17). Kettle Springs’ teen heart-throb, Cole Hill has a bad-boy vibe - all the girls want to date him, and all the guys want to be like him. He’s the creative force behind the wildly popular horror-themed, YouTube videos he and his buddies post. These gory but hilarious videos lampoon ‘Frendo The Clown’ as a violent killer that giggles with murderous glee...Frendo is the mascot and trademark for the community’s main industry, the Baypen corn processing plant. The plant is actually owned by Cole’s family, making him the ‘rich kid’ in town... Rumour has it that he’s the arsonist who burnt down the plant. Quinn is drawn to Cole’s charisma and good looks. They go on a couple dates, but Cole’s heart belongs to another. INTIMACY - ONE KISS. ONLY SUBMIT ARTISTS WHO ARE EIGHTEEN YEARS OF AGE BY SEPTEMBER 18, 2023. ...PLEASE ONLY SUBMIT TOP TALENT WITH LEAD CREDITS. | ||
| Role type | Role | Gender & Age range |
| Supporting | Dr. Glenn Maybrook | Male 46 - 54 Years old |
Description A sensitive and caring father to Quinn, Dr. Glenn Maybrook is a gentle soul by nature and likes to think of himself as a ‘cool dad’. He loves his daughter dearly, and really extends himself to seem current and hip to teenage trends. Naturally Quinn thinks he’s a total goof-ball sometimes, but loves him for it. ...Glenn moved to Kettle Springs to serve as the town’s new doctor. He was an ER physician at a large urban hospital, but had a nervous breakdown after the recent death of his wife, Quinn’s mother. For Glenn, Kettle Springs not only offers a less stressful medical practice, it’s a new beginning as he tries his best to be a single father to Quinn. But he does struggle with his newfound role of lead parent and disciplinarian. When his daughter's life is in danger though, he risks everything to save her....PLEASE ONLY SUBMIT TOP TALENT WITH LEAD CREDITS. | ||
| Role type | Role | Gender & Age range |
| Supporting | Arthur Hill | Male 48 - 58 Years old |
Description Arthur Hill is Cole’s father. Their relationship has been stressed for some time, but worsened since the family business burnt down, and the untimely death of Arthur’s beloved daughter, Victoria. Without any basis, Arthur blames Cole for both these tragedies. ...As the town oligarch, Arthur serves as the MC for Kettle Springs’ biggest event of the year, The Founders Day Parade. Arthur’s speech veers away from a happy recollection of the Hill family’s founding of the town, and their historic role in its economic development... Rather it turns into a lament for all that is wrong with the world, with a pointed finger at the short-comings of today’s youth. ...PLEASE ONLY SUBMIT TOP TALENT WITH LEAD CREDITS. | ||
| Role type | Role | Gender & Age range |
| Supporting | Rust | Male 17 - 17 Years old |
Description 18+ TO PLAY YOUNGER (character written as 17). Tall, lean and physically powerful, Ruston Vance (known as Rust) is a farm-kid and no stranger to hard work. He’s a skilled marksman and loves to hunt, which helps put food on his family’s table. Like many in Kettle Springs, the Vances have fallen upon hard times since the town’s main employer, the Baypen corn processing plant burnt down. Since then, various teen-agers in and around Kettle Springs have gone missing; deep-down Rust knows there is some danger menacing his small town. ...Rust and best buddy Cole Hill used to be inseparable, and in a secret relationship, that is until he pressed Cole to come out. Since then, they’ve grown apart. Although his feelings for Cole have never gone away, Rust carries this private loss with stoic silence. INTIMACY - ONE KISS. ONLY SUBMIT ARTISTS WHO ARE EIGHTEEN YEARS OF AGE BY SEPTEMBER 18, 2023. | ||
| Role type | Role | Gender & Age range |
| Supporting | Janet | Female 17 - 17 Years old |
Description 18+ TO PLAY YOUNGER (character written as 17). A few years back, Janet also moved to Kettle Springs from the city. And like Quinn, she found her place among her peers, part of the tight-knit group of friends that include Ronnie, Matt, Ginger and Tucker, with Cole leading the pack. Style-conscious, popular and pretty, Janet did go out a couple times with Cole; although she tried, it led nowhere. At first Janet is a little envious of the attention Quinn gets from Cole, but that does not stop them from becoming fast friends. ...It’s the night after the town’s ‘Founders Day Parade’. Janet and the gang are having a great time at a barn party that goes horrifically wrong when they are attacked by a cross-bow wielding ‘Frendo The Clown’! At first Janet thinks it’s just another one of Matt and Tucker’s YouTube pranks - but when she realizes the blood is real, and that Ginger is dead, Janet’s night of fun and frolic turns into a desperate fight for her life, and that of her friends. ONLY SUBMIT ARTISTS WHO ARE EIGHTEEN YEARS OF AGE BY SEPTEMBER 18, 2023. | ||
| Role type | Role | Gender & Age range |
| Supporting | Sheriff Dunne | Male 48 - 59 Years old |
Description A bull of a man, Sheriff Dunne (pronounced like ‘done’) is the law in Kettle Springs. He suspects Cole was behind the fire that burnt down the Baypen processing plant, all part of another YouTube stunt gone wrong. There’s no actual evidence of Cole’s involvement in the fire, but that does not stop Dunne from targeting him as a suspect. ...The town’s teenagers see right through the old time-y charm Dunne projects to the adults in town and know he’s a truly bad cop who views young people as a menace. | ||
| Role type | Role | Gender & Age range |
| Supporting | Ronnie | Female 17 - 17 Years old |
Description 18+ TO PLAY YOUNGER (character written as 17). Part of the Cole’s fun-loving gang of YouTubers, Ronnie always sports a pony-tail on the side of her head. ...It’s the night of the barn party Cole always throws after the Founders Day Parade. When Ginger stumbles face down out of a corn-field, Ronnie just thinks she’s drunk - but Ginger is dead! ONLY SUBMIT ARTISTS WHO ARE EIGHTEEN YEARS OF AGE BY SEPTEMBER 18, 2023. | ||
| Role type | Role | Gender & Age range |
| Large Principal | Matt | Male 17 - 17 Years old |
Description 18+ TO PLAY YOUNGER (character written as 17). A big meat-head of a dude, Matt’s greatest joy in life is pranking his friends on tape so he can post their terrified reactions on YouTube. ...While working out one night in his garage, he is approached menacingly by ‘Frendo The Clown’. Matt just thinks it’s his buddy Tucker trying to spook him. In fact, Tucker has been brutally murdered, and Matt is next! ONLY SUBMIT ARTISTS WHO ARE EIGHTEEN YEARS OF AGE BY SEPTEMBER 18, 2023. | ||
| Role type | Role | Gender & Age range |
| Large Principal | Mr. Vern | Male 49 - 59 Years old |
Description The inept, mean-spirited science teacher at Kettle Springs High, Mr. Vern has a real-chip on his shoulder about the state of today’s youth. He is devoid of any sympathy for the challenges young people may face and is a particularly bad teacher. Mr. Vern’s bitterness has grown more pointed since his brother committed suicide due to losing his job at the Baypen plant after it shut-down. | ||
| Role type | Role | Gender & Age range |
| Principal | Trudy | Female 47 - 60 Years old |
Description Not the warmest or most friendly waitress, Trudy runs Kettle Springs’ only restaurant, serving lack-lustre food with great prices. She shares Sheriff Dunne’s disdain for Cole Hill, and also suspects he was behind the fire that destroyed the town’s main source of income, the Baypen corn processing plant. | ||
| Role type | Role | Gender & Age range |
| Principal | Ginger | Female 16 - 16 Years old |
Description 18+ TO PLAY YOUNGER (character written as 16). A friendly student, Ginger welcomes Quinn to her first day at Kettle Springs ‘High. She’s been the target of bullies, but Cole and his gang of YouTubers accept Ginger as a true friend. ONLY SUBMIT ARTISTS WHO ARE EIGHTEEN YEARS OF AGE BY SEPTEMBER 18, 2023. | ||
| Role type | Role | Gender & Age range |
| Principal | Tucker | Male 17 - 17 Years old |
Description 18+ TO PLAY YOUNGER (character written as 17). A quirky stoner-dude, Tucker loves to party! He just pulled a huge prank, so he’s on the look-out for pay-back. When he sees someone dressed as Frendo The Clown on his door-bell app, he thinks it’s just Matt or Cole getting him back. Tucker thinks he’s one step ahead, and readies himself to turn the tables and scare the Hell out of whoever is there, but this time Tucker’s screams are real, and the blood is not fake. ONLY SUBMIT ARTISTS WHO ARE EIGHTEEN YEARS OF AGE BY SEPTEMBER 18, 2023. | ||
| Role type | Role | Gender & Age range |
| Principal | Redbeard | Male 17 - 17 Years old |
Description 18+ TO PLAY YOUNGER (character written as 17). A much-loved member of Cole’s gang of YouTubing pranksters, Redbeard doesn’t actually have a beard (yet). But he’s a great DJ, and loves to groove! ONLY SUBMIT ARTISTS WHO ARE EIGHTEEN YEARS OF AGE BY SEPTEMBER 18, 2023. | ||
| Role type | Role | Gender & Age range |
| Principal | Otis | Male 44 - 58 Years old |
Description A truly small-minded hick, Otis runs the only real store in Kettle Springs. He shares Sheriff Dunne’s general animus toward young people. | ||
| Role type | Role | Gender & Age range |
| Principal | Crystal Hill | Female 42 - 52 Years old |
Description Arthur Hill’s wife and Cole’s mother, Crystal wishes her husband would not be so hard on their son. She does not share any of her husband’s odd views about the social evils Arthur thinks today’s young people are spreading, and tries her best to put on a happy face for the town and keep some semblance of peace in her family. | ||
| Role type | Role | Gender & Age range |
| Principal | Tyler | Male 17 - 17 Years old |
Description 18+ TO PLAY YOUNGER (character written as 17). Seen in a flashback to 1991, late one night Tyler has snuck into a barn at the Baypen corn processing plant with his girlfriend Jessica. It’s their little hideaway to have a toke and make out...but all does not go to plan that fateful night thirty years ago. ONLY SUBMIT ARTISTS WHO ARE EIGHTEEN YEARS OF AGE BY SEPTEMBER 18, 2023. | ||
| Role type | Role | Gender & Age range |
| Principal | News Reporter #3 | All 29 - 49 Years old |
Description After all the horror that Cole and Quinn have suffered at the hands of Arthur Hill, this news reporter still casts aspersions around Cole’s character. | ||
| Role type | Role | Gender & Age range |
| Principal | Knife Frendo | Male 47 - 58 Years old |
Description It’s the night the real ‘Frendo The Clowns’ go on a murderous rampage. Some of their young victims have put up a fight, and one of their ilk has been seriously wounded. ‘Knife Frendo’ takes Dr. Maybrook hostage and forces him to try and save the life of his injured co-conspirator. | ||
| Role type | Role | Gender & Age range |
| Actor | Jessica | Female 17 - 17 Years old |
Description 18+ TO PLAY YOUNGER (character written as 17). Jessica is Tyler’s girlfriend. We see her in a 1991 flashback where she is brutally murdered in a barn at the Baypen plant. ONLY SUBMIT ARTISTS WHO ARE EIGHTEEN YEARS OF AGE BY SEPTEMBER 18, 2023. ONE SCENE SCRIPTED WITH CHARACTER REMOVING SHIRT & WEARING BRA. | ||
| Role type | Role | Gender & Age range |
| Actor | Animal Control Worker | All 31 - 42 Years old |
Description Dr. Mayberry and Quinn have just moved into their ‘new’ home, and have discovered they are sharing it with a raccoon. A member of the Kettle Springs Animal Control attends to remove the dead creature. | ||
| Role type | Role | Gender & Age range |
| Actor | Edna | Female 41 - 54 Years old |
Description It’s Quinn’s first day at her new school, Kettle Springs High. Edna is the counsellor who greets her with chilly disdain. | ||
| Role type | Role | Gender & Age range |
| Actor | Hank | Male 17 - 17 Years old |
Description 18+ TO PLAY YOUNGER (character written as 17). A small-town farm-boy with aspirations, and the talent, to become the next Brad Pitt. He’s one of the kids that welcome Quinn on her first day of school. ONLY SUBMIT ARTISTS WHO ARE EIGHTEEN YEARS OF AGE BY SEPTEMBER 18, 2023. | ||
| Role type | Role | Gender & Age range |
| Actor | Moose | Male 17 - 17 Years old |
Description 18+ TO PLAY YOUNGER (character written as 17). Moose lives on another corn farm down the road from Hank. He is Hank’s reading partner in drama class, and not a bad actor himself. Later we see him distributing Jello-shots at the barn party. ONLY SUBMIT ARTISTS WHO ARE EIGHTEEN YEARS OF AGE BY SEPTEMBER 18, 2023. | ||
| Role type | Role | Gender & Age range |
| Actor | Old Drunk | Male 60 - 72 Years old |
Description Sheriff Dunne’s trumped-up accusations have landed Quinn, Cole, Janet and Ronnie in jail. They share a cell with the town’s drunk who utters a cryptic warning about Frendo The Clown. | ||
| Role type | Role | Gender & Age range |
| Actor | Officer | All 30 - 42 Years old |
Description This deputy of Sheriff Dunne’s releases Quinn, Cole, Janet and Ronnie from the town jail. | ||
| Role type | Role | Gender & Age range |
| Actor | Stoned Kid | Male 17 - 17 Years old |
Description 18+ TO PLAY YOUNGER (character written as 17). This young reveler at Cole’s barn party has no idea the ‘Frendo’ he sees is no friend! ONLY SUBMIT ARTISTS WHO ARE EIGHTEEN YEARS OF AGE BY SEPTEMBER 18, 2023. | ||
| Role type | Role | Gender & Age range |
| Actor | News Reporter | All 29 - 50 Years old |
Description It’s the day after what has been labelled as the ‘Kettle Springs Massacre’ - media have descended upon the town to speculate the motives for this tragedy. | ||
| Role type | Role | Gender & Age range |
| Actor | News Reporter #2 | All 30 - 51 Years old |
Description This reporter suggests a baseless connection to Cole’s YouTube videos and what the public is calling the ‘Kettle Springs Massacre’. | ||