Blaise Embry (ledt) and Eduardo Rioseco have a passionate past together
Actor Blaise Embry has been announced for the lead role of Keegan Dark opposite Eduardo Rioseco in the new gay mystery thriller The Dark Place, written Jody Wheeler (producer of Judas Kiss) and directed by J.T. Tepnapa. Embry, whose credits include Disney's Suite Life On Deck and a memorable turn on Showtime's Weeds, will play a troubled young man who returns to his family's wine estate to make peace with his mother, only to find a conspiracy which casts him and his boyfriend as his mother's killer. “We’ve landed a real talent with Blaise," says director Tepnapa. “His mix of bravado and vulnerability illuminates a character I believe will really connect with audiences.”
Blaise Embry makes the perfect boyfriend...for murder?
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Eduardo Rioseco is an accomplished stage actor, with roles in Fame, Mamma Mia, Wicked, and Next To Normal, and most recently recurred on NBC's Parenthood. In The Dark Place he'll play a lawyer who is indespensible to running Keegan's family winery, and who also shares a past filled with youthful indiscretions with Embry's Keegan.
Eduardo Rioseco looks like someone to have youthful indiscretions with
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Rounding out the cast of The Dark Place are Going Down In La-La Land's Allison Lane, Belgian pop star Timo Descamps, and Sean Paul Lockhart after his success in indie movies Truth: The Movie and Welcome To New York. Producers plan to begin filming in April in Portland, Oregon.
Sean Paul Lockhart, Timo Descamps, and Allison Lane
While production on the film is funded, the filmmakers are running a Kickstarter to buy a cutting edge Red Scarlet digital camera to shoot the film on the highest quality available in the market today, ensuring that the independent production has both the quality of script and the look of a studio production. The camera will be used on their second film shooting later this year, an adaptation of Jay Bell's Young Adult novel Something Like Summer.
