Thursday, August 25, 2011

Disconnect Gets Trio

Alexander Skarsgård Michael Nyqvist, Frank Grillo and Colin Ford are  are all attached to star in the indie "Disconnect" says Variety.



The Crash-style ensemble drama deals with characters who are affected, and in some cases destroyed, by the Internet and other forms of modern communication.

Skarsgard will play a former Marine who's economically struggling emotionally cut off from his wife, prompting him to seek an affair online. Nyqvist will play a man who Skarsgard and his wife suspect of stealing their identity.

Grillo plays a single father and computer safety expert who's overprotective of his 15-year-old son's access to the dangers of the online world. Ford would play Grillo's skater son who deals with his own emotional pain by chatting online with a troubled teen under the guise of being a teen girl.

Andrea Riseborough is up for the role of an ambitious TV reporter who pursues a story about a young male model who poses nude online.

"Murderball" helmer Henry Alex Rubin will call action using Andrew Stern's script

Mickey Liddell, William Horberg and Jennifer Hilton Monroe will produce.

Shooting kicks off next month in New York City.

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