After a rocky road on the development path, the adaptation of Stephen King’s killer mobile signal thriller Cell is finally putting the pieces in place under the direction of Tod Williams. Orphan**’s Isabelle Fuhrman is aboard to play teenager Alice Maxwell.
Fuhrman, who last cropped up in The Hunger Games: Catching Fire, joins Samuel L. Jackson and John Cusack in the film, which posits the world falling into chaos when a mysterious, phone-borne signal turns a wide swathe of the population into zombie-like hunters with a herd mentality.
Cusack is starring as graphic artist Clay Riddell, who escapes from Boston when the signal starts to drive people around him violently insane. Jackson will be Tom McCourt, a soldier-turned-engineer who helps Riddell flee the city, while Fuhrman is set as the young woman who tags along on their desperate quest for survival.
Williams is working from a script by King himself and **Last House On The Left **writer Adam Alleca, aiming at a 2015 release date. Fuhrman has worked on two indie movies recently, The Wilderness Of James and Dear Eleanor, but there’s no sign of when – or if – either film will arrive on these shores.