Sean Astin (The Lord of the Rings, The Goonies, Encino Man), Brando Eaton (“Dexter,” “American Horror Story”) and Ben Hollingsworth will topline Indomina’s Cabin Fever: Patient Zero with Kaare Andrews directing, reports Variety.
Shooting will start August 13 in the Dominican Republic, where Indomina has part of its operations. It also plans to shoot Cabin Fever: Outbreak in the Dominican Republic.
Original Cabin Fever producer Evan Astrowsky and his Hypotenuse Pictures is producing Patient Zero with Indomina. Jake Wade Wall (The Hitcher, When a Stranger Calls) wrote the Patient Zero screenplay that “Centers on a bachelor party cruise in the Caribbean unexpectedly running ashore on a medical research island, a deadly virus is unleashed.”
Andrews is a writer and artist who worked on Marvel Comics’ “The Incredible Hulk,” “Ultimate X-Men” and “Spider-Man: Reign.” He made his feature directing debut with the supernatural horror movie Altitude and is in post on “V is for Vagitus” as part of the “ABC’s of Death” a horror anthology.
The plan is to segue this film into a second sequel, Cabin Fever: Outbreak to be penned by Adam and Deborah Marcus.