Frankie Muniz, Jon Foster and Samaire Armstrong will head the horror thriller
Stay Alive, according to the Hollywood Reporter.
Muniz is set to play computer nerd Swink Sylvania; Armstrong will play Abigail; and Foster plays the lead, Hutch, a handsome video gamer with a secret.
Brent Bell will direct the movie which follows a group of young friends in New Orleans who reconnect for the funeral of a friend who died while playing a video game called
Stay Alive. They discover that the murders are being acted out in real life by the spirit of a local legend that might have come through the game with murderous intentions.
The film starts shooting next month in Louisiana.