Last Friday, we told you about the building cast of the indie supernatural thriller, The Healer by Giorgio Serafini, with the casting the young stars of Super 8, The Hunger Games, and Unicorns with Joel Courtney, Isabelle Fuhrman, and Natalia Dyer respectively.

According to THR, writer/critic/actor/director Peter Bogdanovich (The Last Picture Show, Sopranos) has been cast to play a character based on the Greek character of Charon, the ferryman of the River Styx to the land of the dead.

Giuseppe Pedersoli and Susan Johnson are producing the project under the Italian company, Smile Productions. Production will begin this week in North Carolina.

Synopsis:

An ailing father (James LeGros), who is about to undergo a potentially life-threatening surgery, takes his teenage kids (Joel Courtney and Isabelle Fuhrman) into the woods to try and recapture their early closeness, before he and his wife divorced and everything changed. But the three are swept into a supernatural adventure, in which only their Father, Chris, “The Healer,” has the ability to control their destinies. Lost in a haunted forest from which there seems no escape except death, this moving and sensitive script tells a beautiful story of a family’s tragedy & resilience.

No release date has been set yet for The Healer.

[Image Credit] Liz Hafalia