‘Sweet Tooth’ Star Christian Convery Joins Bad Robot’s Mystery Movie at Warner Bros. (EXCLUSIVE)

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Rounding out the lead cast for David Robert Mitchell’s mysterious new feature film with Bad Robot is Christian Convery, the star of Netflix’s top-rated “Sweet Tooth.”

Convery joins Anne Hathaway, Ewan McGregor and Sundance breakout Maisy Stella in the family adventure from the “It Follows” director. Plot details are still under wraps for the project from J.J. Abrams and Warner Bros. Pictures. Convery and Stella will play the children of Hathaway and McGregor, we hear. The film has been previously categorized as a thriller.

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At only 14, Convery has led the dystopian sci-fi series “Sweet Tooth” for two seasons. It was adapted from a popular comic book series and produced by Robert Downey Jr. and Susan Downey. Convery most recently starred in Elizabeth Banks’ gory water cooler hit “Cocaine Bear,” alongside alongside Keri Russell and O’Shea Jackson Jr. He is currently in production on Academy Award winner Guillermo Del Toro’s take on “Frankenstein.” The actor, who counts 1.2 million followers on Instagram, has also lent his voice to two films in the “Diary of a Wimpy Kid” animated franchise, as well as Paramount’s “Paw Patrol: The Mighty Movie.”

Mitchell will direct from his script for the untitled WB project, which Abrams will produce with Bad Robot’s Hannah Minghella and Jackson Pictures’ Matt Jackson. Jake Weiner and Chris Bender from Good Fear Content are executive producing. Sheila Walcott and Zach Hamby are overseeing the project for the Warner Bros. Motion Picture Group.

Convery is repped by Entertainment 360, Innovative Artists and imPRint.

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