Next year is when Novocaine begins filming.
In the lead role of the upcoming action film Novocaine, Jack Quaid has joined.
Quaid, who played Hughie Campbell in The Boys, also starred in the film Scream from last year.
According to Deadline, he will portray Nathan Caine in the film Novocaine, a guy who is born without the ability to feel physical pain due to a rare condition known as Congenital Insensitivity to Pain (CIPA).
Because he was raised in a closed environment, Nathan had to rely on strategies like mashing his food so he wouldn’t bite his tongue or using timers to remind him to go to the bathroom.
His condition inadvertently becomes a strength when his bank is robbed and his new love interest is taken hostage, as he prepares to do whatever it takes to rescue her.
Novocaine is going to be directed by Dan Berk and Robert Olsen (Villains) and will starts shooting early next year with a SAG-AFTRA interim agreement in place.
“Novocaine is a non-stop, edge-of-the-seat action thriller loaded with all the heart, humor and kickass-ery you could ever want,” the movie’s producers said in a statement.
“We couldn’t be more excited to get shooting next year with Dan and Bobby, who are true talents that we believe are the next big directors in the action space.”
“It’s hard to find unique access points in this genre, but this film and the unlikely hero at its heart captured our imagination right away,” the directors added.
“Shepherding this project along with Infrared and Safehouse has been incredible, and working with the absolute perfect lead in Jack Quaid is honestly a dream come true.”
Quaid has shared several recent updates from the SAG-AFTRA picket lines as the actors’ strike continues. His latest photo shows him standing next to strike captain Ely Henry, wearing an orange traffic cone costume, at a picket line outside Paramount’s studios.
“Cone you believe we’re still here?!” he wrote on Instagram. “Strike captain/all powerful cone @elyhenry and I are wishing our @sagaftra negotiation committee the best for tomorrow’s negotiations! Let’s do this!”
Talks between representatives from the actors’ union and major studios came to a halt a couple of weeks ago, but a short joint statement from SAG-AFTRA and AMPTP confirmed they will meet for further negotiations.
