This Just In: David Guy Levy to Direct Periscope Entertainment's Thriller WOULD YOU RATHER
PERISCOPE ENTERTAINMENT’S DAVID GUY LEVY TO DIRECT & PRODUCE ‘WOULD YOU RATHER’ WITH SOCIAL CONSTRUCT FILMS & DREAMHER PRODUCTIONS
Principal Photography on Thriller Began This Week in Los Angeles
Los Angeles, CA (July 21, 2011) – Filming began this week on Periscope Entertainment’s WOULD YOU RATHER in Los Angeles, starring Brittany Snow (Hairspray) and Jeffrey Combs (House on Haunted Hill). David Guy Levy, President and CEO of Periscope Entertainment is directing and producing under his banner in association with Zak Kilberg (The Slaughter, Zombie Strippers!) at Social Construct Films, Maura Anderson (Winter’s Bone) and Dreamher Productions. Brittany Snow and Andre Royo (The Wire) are executive producing.
The film is based on an original script by Steffen Schlachtenhaufen (Emmy-nominated Life After People) and story by Schlachtenhaufen and David Guy Levy. WOULD YOU RATHER centers on a young woman (Snow) who, in her desperation to help her ailing brother, agrees to compete in a deadly game of “Would You Rather,” hosted by a sadistic aristocrat (Combs). The film’s cast includes Sasha Grey (Entourage, The Girlfriend Experience), John Heard (Home Alone), Robin Lord Taylor (Another Earth) and Lawrence Gilliard, Jr. (The Wire).
Listed by Variety as one of 2010’s 10 Producers to Watch, David Guy Levy executive produced the coming of age comedy Terri, starring Oscar-nominated John C. Reilly, which bowed in theaters earlier this month.
ABOUT PERISCOPE ENTERTAINMENT
Periscope Entertainment is a production company delivering a variety of unique, non-genre specific titles. In addition to Terri, the company is behind the 2008 Sundance Official Selection drama August starring Josh Hartnett, Emmanuelle Chriqui, David Bowie, and Rip Torn which was released by First Look International.
Upcoming projects include the Monster Squad remake from Paramount, which Periscope is co-producing alongside Michael Bay under his Platinum Dunes’s production company; the crime mystery London Fields, to be directed by Michael Winterbottom and to star Gemma Arterton; and The Wait, a drama starring Chloë Sevigny and Jena Malone.
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