EXCLUSIVE: A short film starring The Walking Dead and The Wire star Seth Gilliam and Emmy-nominee Sonja O’Hara (Doomsday) is being adapted as a feature.
Paranormal crime thriller Stakeout is directed and written by Micah Khan (The Zombie Wedding) and written by Khan, Victoria Diana, and David Wappel. The film explores a pair of detectives tracking a brutal serial killer and is planned as the intro into multiple features set in a crime-ridden world suffering from a hidden vampire epidemic.
Gilliam and O’Hara are both attached for the feature, which is aiming to shoot this year.
The short film is produced by Khan, Natalie Stavola, Katrina Kearns (I Feel Fine), Victoria Diana (Books), and Francesco Cordero, with executive producers Patrick Regan and 7th Draft Productions. Stavola is developing three features with Khan: the feature-length version of Stakeout, The Captain and The Last Farm.
Khan recently wrapped principal photography on the independent TV pilot Books starring Spencer Grammer (Rick and Morty) and Ajay Naidu (Office Space). Stakeout reunites him with Gilliam after their collaboration on Khan’s feature directorial debut, The Zombie Wedding, for Weekly World News.
“Everything under the sun has already been told before,” said Khan. “So I want to go into the shadows to unfold new tales. It’s the perfect place to vent my fears about the future, each time told through the myopic eyes of a mortal battling immortals in the night fog. And although we’re playing with monsters in a familiar genre, under the hood we’re dealing with the quiet secrets that ail us in the real world.
Gilliam is well known for his role as Father Gabriel Stokes in AMC’s The Walking Dead, as well as his work on Teen Wolf and HBO’s The Wire. O’Hara, Emmy nominated for Doomsday, which she starred in and created, most recently co-starred in the crime thriller Tender alongside Jesse Garcia, Jess Weixler and David Koechner, and she is also set to direct and star in Theirs, an upcoming horror-thriller featuring Harvey Keitel and Rita Moreno.
Gilliam is represented by Gersh and Suskin/Karshan Management. O’Hara is represented by Verve, Gotham Group, Park Artists, and Fox Rothschild. Khan is represented by ESE Management.
