Halsey is making her way back to the big screen. The singer and actress has been tapped to feature in Replacer, Deadline reported, a “psycho-sexual horror” written by Halsey and her partner, actor-director Avan Jogia, who is also directing the film. Lilly Wachowski, who broke through with her sister Lana with their massive hit Matrix trilogy, is executive producing.
Per Deadline, a synopsis details that Halsey stars as Proxy, a “troubled DJ” who finds herself stranded in Montreal and “meets an alluring artist and his group of friends who run an underground radio station.” After a “mysterious signal hidden deep beneath the city’s subway system” distorts the station’s broadcast, Proxy attempts to “escape before the sound turns her, and her new friends, into something raw, primal, and unrecognizable.”
“Avan and Halsey’s script is a surreal hyper-dive into a twitchy, conspiratorial genre mashing snarl of horror/thriller/comedy, set against the grit and grime of a rarely glimpsed Montreal subculture,” Wachowski told the publication. “This thing is packed! I have the sense that Avan’s eyeballs have gulped down a steady diet of the films I grew up on- David Cronenberg, Alex Cox, Tony Scott, John Carpenter. Anarchists United is beyond excited to join the Replacer team and bring this super cool story to the screen!”
Along with Wachowski, Anthony Li, Lawrence Mattis, Sarah Flores, Christopher Renteria, Emily McCann Lesser, and Clay Epstein of Film Mode Entertainment are also exec-producing the project. Olivier Picard and David Pierrat of Parce Que Films are co-producing with Kyle Mann of Independent Edge, Isabelle Deluce of Soft Focus Films, and Damiano Tucci of Getaway Entertainment, in association with Anarchists United.
Halsey, who reposted Deadline‘s coverage of the project via Instagram Stories, will reportedly be in Cannes meeting with buyers as the film is introduced to the marketplace and supporting its launch.
In recent years, Halsey has featured in MaXXXine, the third installment of the X trilogy, and Americana, starring alongisde Sydney Sweeney and Paul Walter Hauser.
