EXCLUSIVE : Paramount Pictures has rounded out the cast of Vicious , its horror film starring Dakota Fanning. New additions include Kathryn Hunter ( Poor Things ), Tony Award nominee Mary McCormack ( The West Wing ), Rachel Blanchard ( The Summer I Turned Pretty ), Devyn Nekoda ( Scream VI ), Klea Scott ( Millennium ), and Emily Mitchell ( Ordinary Angels ). An Atlas Independent production, the film follows a young woman who, after being left with a strange present from a late-night visitor, must spend the night fighting for her existence as she slips down a disturbing rabbit hole contained inside the gift. Related Stories Casting Benedict Cumberbatch & Olivia Colman Team With Jay Roach On ‘The War Of The Roses’ Reimagining For Searchlight Casting Jack Champion, Sophia Lillis, Kate del Castillo, Tony Dalton, Whitney Peak, Blu del Barrio & Bobby Cannavale Join Dave Bautista In Action Pic ‘Trap House’ Bryan Bertino ( The Strangers ) is directing from his own script, with Richard Suckle (
American Hustle , Wonder Woman ) producing. Melinda Whitaker serves as executive producer. Pic is slated for release in theaters on August 8, 2025. Recently, Hunter has been seen in Yorgos Lanthimos’s Poor Things , as well as Joel Coen’s The Tragedy of Macbeth , also appearing on shows like Andor and Landscapers . Upcoming projects include Francis Ford Coppola’s Megalopolis , Max and Sam Eggers’ horror thriller The Front Room for A24, and the
Netflix series Black Doves . McCormack’s been seen of late on shows like Heels and The Kids Are Alrigh t, and in films like Max’s Unpregnant . Blanchard stars on Prime Video’s YA series The Summer I Turned Pretty and starred prior to that on Audience Network’s You Me Her and FX’s Fargo . On the film side, she was most recently seen starring alongside
Ben Affleck and Ana de Armas in the 20th/Hulu thriller Deep Water . In addition to Scream VI , Nekoda has been seen on shows like Ginny & Georgia and Utopia Falls . Previously seen in films like Minority Report and Collateral , Scott has more recently been seen on shows like Pretty Liars and spin-off Pretty Little Liars: The Perfectionists . Mitchell portrayed a five-year-old Lisa Marie Presley in Sofia Coppola’s Priscilla and has also been seen in the films Ordinary Angels and
Women Talking , as well as series like What We Do in the Shadows and Ghosts . Up next, she’ll be seen as
Ivanka Trump in the Sebastian Stan indie The Apprentice . Hunter is repped by Stanton Davidson Associates in the UK; McCormack by CAA, Untitled Entertainment, and Paul Hastings; Blanchard by Buchwald, Edna Talent Management, and The Nord Group; Nekoda by Entertainment 360 & da Costa Talent Management; and Scott by Daniel Hoff Agency and Rugolo Entertainment.