Actor-filmmaker Tyler Perry has joined the cast of “Brain On Fire,” director Gerard Barrett’s film based on Susannah Cahalan’s bestselling memoir.
Chloë Grace Moretz stars in the story of a young woman’s harrowing descent into insanity, which includes hearing voices, hallucinating, battling bouts of paranoia and lashing out during violent episodes.
Perry will play Richard, her boss at the New York Post.
Thomas Mann, Jenny Slate, Richard Armitage and Carrie-Anne Moss also star in “Brain On Fire,” which is shooting in Vancouver for a 2016 release.
Broad Green Pictures is teaming with Charlize Theron’s Denver & Delilah and Foundation Features to produce and finance the film, which Broad Green will distribute in the U.S., according to Deadline.com.