Simon Pegg Set to Star in Dark Comedy MY PHONE DIED With Mark Duplass and Haley Joel Osment
Simon Pegg (Shaun of the Dead, Mission: Impossible) has signed on to play a Hollywood agent in upcoming dark comedy My Phone Died, with Mark Duplass (The Morning Show, Creep) and Haley Joel Osment (The Sixth Sense, Blink Twice) also attached to star.
The film comes from filmmaking duo Hannah Leder and Alexandra Kotcheff, who will write, direct and also co-star.
The synopsis for the film explains that in the story, when smart phones start exploding around the globe, it’s the end of the world as we know it.
But for a few lucky survivors — a Hollywood agent, Amish woman, social media influencer, pregnant agoraphobic and her shotgun-wielding stoner mother — the apocalypse might just be a new beginning.
Pegg will play agent Gus, who narrowly escapes the phone apocalypse, while Duplass plays one of his self-obsessed clients who doesn’t.
Osment plays a recovering alcoholic and social media influencer, with Kotcheff as Francis, who has abandoned her Amish community for Osment’s character, and Leder as the agoraphobic and heavily pregnant wannabe-actress Lillie.
My Phone Died is set to shoot in the spring of 2027.
via: Variety