EXCLUSIVE: Daniel Zolghadri, star of A24’s Funny Pages and upcoming Y2K, is negotiating for the lead role in The Temple, a sci-fi horror film from the Canadian writing and directing duo of Yonah Lewis and Calvin Thomas.
In the indie gearing up for a shoot up north, an orphaned millionaire (Zolghadri) dedicates his life and considerable fortune to finding the ghosts of his parents with the help of a skeptical radiation scientist.
Katie Bird Nolan and Lindsay Tapscott will produce for their Babe Nation Films, alongside the writer-director duo’s Lisa Pictures.
An in-demand talent on the indie scene, Zolghadri garnered an Independent Spirit Award nomination for Best Breakthrough Performance for his work in Funny Pages, A24’s 2022 coming-of-age comedy written and directed by Owen Kline and produced by the Safdie brothers, which was named one of the Top 10 Independent Films of 2022 by the National Board of Review.
Recently guest starring on American Horror Stories, the actor has recurred on Prime Video’s Tales from the Loop and will next be seen starring in Kyle Mooney’s dial-up disaster comedy Y2K, which A24 releases on December 6. Other upcoming projects include the thriller Lurker, from The Bear and Beef scribe Alex Russell, and Mary Bronstein’s A24 pic If I Had Legs I’d Kick You starring Rose Byrne.
Lewis and Thomas have previously helmed titles including Amy George, The Oxbow Cure, Spice It Up, and White Lie, which Babe Nation Films produced. That company is best known for its psychological thriller Alice, Darling, starring Anna Kendrick, which was released by Lionsgate after world premiering at TIFF.
Zolghadri is represented by UTA.
