EXCLUSIVE: Tech-driven deepfakes will weaponize pictures of teenage classmates in characteristic movie Disconnectedwith Kayla Ewell (The Vampire Diaries) and Brian Dietzen (NCIS).
The drama will discover the societal influence of AI, cyberbullying and digital habit with manufacturing underway on location in West Virginia.
The movie brings collectively a trio of animated sequence actors Everybody nonetheless hates Chris:Gunnar Sizemore (Nashville), Terrence Little Gardenhigh (Harmful drive), and Tim Johnson Jr. (Potential). Cassidy Naber (Barbie Dreamhouse) and Kevin Sizemore (The staircase) additionally featured.
Directed by Joanne Hock (Once we final spoke), Disconnected “focuses on the Walker household as they cope with private loss and the implications of on-line manipulation. Set in opposition to the backdrop of a college system closely reliant on expertise, the Walkers and a gaggle of brave college students problem a corrupt administration as they struggle to reclaim their group and their lives.”
“Disconnected is a wake-up name for our hyper-connected world,” Hock mentioned. “It’s the story of how a household and a gaggle of brave college students in a small West Virginia city struggle in opposition to the poisonous grip of AI surveillance, deepfakes and social media manipulation to reclaim their humanity, their faculty and their future.”
The mission is produced by Kevin Sizemore and Gina Lombardi underneath the GKg Productions banner. Garrett Z. Sutton (Kangaroo youngsters) is govt producer.
Kayla Ewell is finest recognized for her function as Vicki Donovan in The Vampire Diaries and for his work on The CW Roswell. His credit additionally embody The Daring and the Lovely And Freaks and Geeks. Dietzen performed Jimmy Palmer in 23 seasons of the hit CBS drama sequence NCIS and wrote a number of episodes of the long-running procedural.
Ewell is represented by artists and representatives and managed by Untitled Leisure. Dietzen is represented by James Feldman at LGNLaw.