Variety is reporting that a wave of young actors are currently in talks to join The Kitchen Sink, director Robbie Pickering‘s follow-up to his well-received Natural Selection (one of our favorite directorial debuts of 2012). Among the names listed in the piece are Sundance star Mackenzie Davis (Smashed, Breathe In), Nicholas Braun (The Perks of Being a Wallflower, Red State), Josh Fadem, and Chris Zylka (The Amazing Spider-Man).
Based on a Black List-certified screenplay from Oren Uziel (the forthcoming Mortal Kombat reboot, of all projects), The Kitchen Sink is “[a] monster mash-up movie in the vein of Zombieland that will “[follow] a pair of teens (Davis and Braun) who form an unlikely alliance with vampires and zombies in order to take on an alien army.” Though not entirely specified, it’s said that Zylka is circling “one of the main roles” in the film. Perhaps it’ll be one of the vampires or aliens!
We first reported on The Kitchen Sink — which was once thought to be the directorial debut of Jonah Hill — about a year ago. Distributor Sony is gunning for a summer shoot, and Matt Tolmach (another Amazing Spider-Man alum) is on board to produce the film. While I can’t say that all of this is striking me as the most unique thing out on the horizon — especially coming from a grassroots guy like Pickering — hopefully, it’ll at least serve as a nice commercial coming-out for some of these talented young artists.
What do you think of the early casting for The Kitchen Sink? Did you see Natural Selection?