Harold Perrineau Jr. Joins Dark Comedy Sexy Evil Geniusby Wilson Morales
June 1, 2011
Harold Perrineau Jr. has been added to the cast of Sobini Films’ dark comedy ‘Sexy Evil Genius,’ joining Seth Green, Michelle Trachtenberg, Billy Baldwin and Katee Sackhoff.
Shawn Piller is making his feature directorial debut on the project which was written by Scott Lew, a scribe diagnosed with ALS (Lou Gehrig’s Disease) and who can only communicate via the written word.
‘Sexy Evil Genius’ is a dark comedy about an eclectic group of strangers invited to a downtown Los Angeles bar by a mutual ex-lover, Nikki Franklyn (Sackhoff), a maddeningly sexy, unpredictable and possibly insane young woman who’s recently gotten out of prison for murdering her last ex-boyfriend. The party really gets started when Nikki herself arrives, hauling her latest lover and fiancée, the morally-challenged lawyer who’s been handling her case. She’s mysterious about her intentions and her current and former lovers soon realize they are all caught in one of her brilliant, mischievous mind-games with possible deadly consequences.
Perrineau is known for the roles of Michael Dawson in the U.S. television series Lost, Link in The Matrix films and games, Augustus Hill in the American television series Oz, Julian Murch in Malcolm D. Lee’s The Best Man, and Mercutio in Baz Luhrmann’s Romeo + Juliet. He recently starred in ABC’s comedy-drama television series The Unusuals, playing NYPD homicide detective Leo Banks.
Lloyd Segan of Piller/Segan/Shepherd and David W. Higgins (HARD CANDY) of Launchpad Productions are producing ‘Sexy Evil Genius’ along with Sobini Films’ Mark Amin. Cami Winikoff of Sobini and Scott Shepherd are executive producers. Sackhoff, Todd Ulman, and Nellie Nugiel are co-producers.
