Missi Pyle, William Jackson Harper & Elizabeth Marvel Among New Additions To Tim Blake Nelson’s ‘The Life And Deaths Of Wilson Shedd’

EXCLUSIVE: The Life and Deaths of Wilson Shedd, the new prison break thriller written and directed Tim Blake Nelson, has added six to its cast, including Nelson himself. Others newly aboard include Missi Pyle (Captain Fantastic), William Jackson Harper (The Good Place), Elizabeth Marvel (Presumed Innocent), Grant Harvey (The Accountant 2) and Devyn Tyler (Snowfall), as well as co-financier QWGmire.

Character details for the supporting players are under wraps. As previously announced, Amanda Seyfried and Scoot McNairy lead the film, where a teacher in an abusive marriage takes a job at a maximum-security prison, falling for a charismatic inmate. The disastrous consequences call into question not only the nature of punishment and retribution, but the very limits of our humanity.

Currently in production in Georgia, the film is being produced by Julie Buck, Nelson, Ryan Bartecki, Miles David Romney, and Billy Hines, with Christopher Hines, Gary Levinsohn, Molly C. Quinn, Matthew M. Welty and Elan Gale exec producing. John Mock and Vanessa Stewart are co-producers. Co Created Media, V42 Fund, Nelson’s Red Barn Films, QWGmire, and Story Mill Entertainment are the production companies, and domestic rights are being co-represented by WME, V42, and D Squared Films.

Pyle is repped by Paradigm, Prime Talent Media, and Hirsch Wallerstein Hayum; Harper by UTA, AC Management, and Jackoway Austen; Marvel by Innovative Artists, Viking Entertainment, and Franklin, Weinrib, Rudell & Vassallo; Harvey by Allegory Creative Talent, Prime Talent Media and Gang, Tyre, Ramer; and Tyler by Bret Adams Agency.

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