Nico Tortorella, who is one of the key players in the class of 2011 actors in Scream 4, is in negotiations to nab the villain role in
Odd Thomas, Stephen Sommers' adaptation of the Dean Koontz book series.
The story centers on a short-order cook named
Odd Thomas (played by Anton Yelchin) who can commune with the dead, a secret only his girlfriend (Addison Timlin) and the local police (Willem Dafoe) chief know.