EXCLUSIVE: Clown in a Cornfield‘s Eli Craig has rounded out the cast of White Elephant, his holiday horror film we scooped last week.
New additions include KJ Apa (Riverdale), Madeleine Arthur (Devil in Ohio), Josh Brener (Silicon Valley), Ashley Park (Emily in Paris), Alexandra Shipp (Anyone but You), and Justice Smith (I Saw the TV Glow).
As previously announced, Nick Jonas and Kathryn Newton lead the cast, with production underway.
Marking the first title under MRC’s venture with RSPX, the partnership with Radio Silence and Project X focused on horror and thriller projects, White Elephant‘s logline is as follows: Eight friends. One prize. Zero trust. Their annual festive holiday gift exchange spirals into a cutthroat game of Christmas carnage.
Craig is directing from a script by JT Billings, having completed additional writing himself for the project.
MRC is the studio financing the film. Spencer Berman and Nick Jonas are producing for Powered By Jonas, along with William Sherak, Paul Neinstein and James Vanderbilt for Project X, Tyler Gillett, and Matt Bettinelli-Olpin. Exec producers are Billings, Ryan McDonough, Amanda Drake, Newton, Scott Levine, and Chad Villella.
Apa is repped by UTA, Luber Roklin Entertainment, Mandy Jacobsen, Red 11 Management, and Jackoway Austen Tyerman; Arthur by Brave Artists Management, Gersh, and MoGood Talent Management; Brener by Artists First, Kohner Agency, and Dan Fox at Hansen, Jacobson, Teller; Park by CAA and Michael Auerbach; Shipp by Neon Kite, CAA, and Goodman, Genow, Schenkman; and Smith by WME and Sloane, Offer, Weber & Dern.
