The intriguing The Bad Batch – whose title really doesn’t give much of a hint as to its out there concept – already boasts Jason Momoa in the lead. Now an eclectic group of actors is joining him in the film, with Keanu Reeves, Jim Carrey, Suki Waterhouse and Diego Luna jumping aboard.
Annapurna Pictures and VICE are producing this one, with Ana Lily Amirpour as the director. Set in a post-apocalyptic Texan wasteland, the film is described as a cannibal love story where Momoa’s Miami Man has been subsisting by eating the people around him. But he’s also developed affection for the human beings he makes a meal out of.
Not much more is known about the plot, but we do know Reeves is playing someone called The Dream, Carrey will be The Hermit, Waterhouse is a woman named Arlen, while Luna is Jimmy. No mention is made in The Wrap’s story of when it will kick off shooting, but the production companies are taking the project to the Cannes Film Festival in May to sell the international rights.
Reeves, about to explode on to our screens again in hit man revenge thriller John Wick, will next be seen in Eli Roth’s Knock Knock and legal drama The Whole Truth. Carrey reprised his role as Lloyd Christmas in Dumb & Dumber To and has a variety of projects lingering in development. Waterhouse, last seen in Love, Rosie, is in this week’s Insurgent as well as Pride And Prejudice And Zombies, while Luna is editing his latest film as a director, Mr. Pig.