EXCLUSIVE: Vincent Kartheiser (Mad Males) and Laura Slade Wiggins (Shameless) have signed on to star alongside Landon Ashworth (Area Drive) in Go On, a fantasy drama marking Ashworth’s function directorial debut, which is able to enter manufacturing in New Mexico in September.
Marking Ashworth’s first produced function screenplay, the movie follows two strangers on a distant mountain, scorched by forest fires, as they assist one another course of baggage from their earlier lives to allow them to transition to the afterlife. Ashworth crafted the screenplay after dropping his very younger cousin, Landon Bellm, to suicide.
“Having my function movie directorial debut be my very own screenplay which addresses actual, significant, and relatable points is an honor,” Ashworth advised Deadline. “Additionally, having the chance to work with Vincent is past a dream come true. I’ve adopted his profession for over a decade and knew he wanted to play the co-lead of this film. His roles after Mad Males have simply solidified my opinion that he’s top-of-the-line dramatic actors of our technology and worthy of this function.”
Continued the actor-filmmaker, “The added bonus of getting Laura Slade signal on is humbling to say the least. Most administrators I do know didn’t have such wonderful expertise obtainable for his or her first options. After a decade of directing TV commercials and sketch comedy I’m completely able to deliver this function movie to a worldwide viewers.”
Finest recognized for his critically acclaimed function as Pete Campbell on AMC’s Mad Males, Kartheiser’s most just lately been seen on the DC collection Titans, having additionally beforehand appeared on Informal, The Path, Saints & Strangers, Das Boot, and The OA. Notable function credit embody In Time, My Buddy Dahmer and Alpha Canine, to call just a few.
Along with recurring on Showtime’s Shameless, Wiggins has appeared in such movies as Nancy Drew and the Hidden Staircase, Rings and twentieth Century Girls, amongst others.
A well known voice within the Autism group who’s amassed over two million social media followers within the final yr alone from his sketch comedy, Ashworth gained a number of screenwriting festivals final yr with a TV pilot surrounding the ladies bra-makers of the ’50s and ’60s who improbably gained the contract to construct NASA’s Apollo spacesuits. He’s additionally been growing a NASA-endorsed musical in regards to the house race, which he’ll stage at on the Newnan Theatre in Georgia in August and hopes to take to Broadway. Ashworth is not any stranger to subjects about house, having earned a PhD in Astrophysics and spent three years as a take a look at pilot for the Nationwide Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration.
As an actor, Ashworth has been seen within the Will Ferrell comedy Land of the Misplaced, in addition to such collection as The Resident, MacGruber, Area Drive and NCIS. He’s represented by Established Artists. Kartheiser is repped by Paradigm and Untitled Leisure; Wiggins by J Pervis Expertise Company and Luber Roklin Leisure.
For those who or anybody you recognize is having ideas of suicide, name or textual content 988 to achieve the Nationwide Suicide Prevention Lifeline.
