EXCLUSIVE: Madeleine McGraw (The Black Phone) has signed on to star in SuperUnknown, a supernatural coming-of-age thriller written by Chris and Charlie Frazier and to be directed by The Brothers Riedell (A Nice Girl Like You, Camp Takota).
Set to shoot in New Mexico this fall, the film is about a high schooler who discovers his parents have been harboring a supernatural creature. Subsequently, he and his bandmates must face off with the creature as it escapes and terrorizes their suburban town. No word on McGraw’s role.
Scott MacLeod (Mending the Line) and Courtney Blythe Turk (Assassination Nation) will produce, with McGraw exec producing.
Fresh off receiving the CinemaCon Rising Star of 2025 Award, 16-year-old McGraw has her genre credentials already for her turn as Gwen in Blumhouse’s breakout horror hit, The Black Phone, and will reprise in the sequel, releasing October 17. She’s also known for roles in films like American Sniper, Pacific Rim: Uprising, and Ant-Man and the Wasp, among others.
Chris and Nick Riedell (aka The Brothers Riedell) are Bay Area natives who followed up the comedy Camp Takota with action-comedy Bad Night and A Nice Girl Like You, a rom-com starring Lucy Hale that was released by Vertical.
Chris and Charlie Frazier got their start in 2012, in selling their pilot Flinch to USA Network. They have since developed both television and features with MGM, Warner Bros., and Fox, among others. Their current projects in development include Radical, a biopic about civil rights activist Yuri Kochiyama with Nina Yang at Forest Whitaker’s Significant Pictures producing; A Hitman’s Christmas, an action comedy with Todd Garner and Derek Kolstad producing; and Untethered, a half-hour docucomedy series set in a small mountain town one year after Earth lost gravity for five minutes and most of humanity floated into space.
McGraw is repped by Coast to Coast Talent Group, The Burstein Company and Schreck Rose Dapello. Charlie and Chris Frazier are repped by Circle Management & Production and Felker Toczek Suddleson.
