Tyler Perry Joins Cast Of Chloe Grace Moretz’s Brain on FirePosted by Wilson Morales
Source: EOnline
According to EOnline, writer/director Tyler Perry is the latest addition to ‘Brain on Fire,’ joining Chloe Grace Moretz, Thomas Mann, Jenny Slate, Richard Armitage and Carrie-Anne Moss.
Directed by Gerard Barrett with Broad Green Pictures, Foundation Features and Charlize Theron’s company Denver & Delilah serving as producers, the film is an adaptation of Susannah Cahalan’s “Brain on Fire: My Month of Madness.”
Moretz plays a rising journalist at the New York Post who falls victim to an inexplicable illness that has her hearing voices, hallucinating, battling bouts of paranoia and lashing out during violent episodes before a last-minute intervention by one doctor gives her a diagnosis and the chance to rebuild her life. Perry will play her boss at the New York Post.
Best known for starring, writing and directing the Madea film, Perry’s recent acting credits include “The Single Moms Club” and David Fincher’s “Gone Girl.” His next role will be the upcoming sequel “Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Half Shell.”
