Sherlock Holmes: A Game of Shadows and Mad Men star Jared Harris has joined the cast of MGM and Fox 2000's Poltergeist remake.
Harris will play the character of Carrigan, a TV personality who left behind his life of academia to pursue the hosting job of a basic cable series, Haunted House Cleaners.
The English actor is coming off a supporting role in last year's Lincoln as well as recently re-joining his Sherlock Holmes director, Guy Ritchie, for Warner Bros. The Man from U.N.C.L.E.
Promised Land actress, Rosemarie DeWitt, joined the cast back in July to play the female lead (though it's not clear who her character is).
Gil Kenan - whose only directorial credits include 2006's Monster House and 2008's City of Ember - will direct from a script by David Lindsay-Abaire (Oz the Great and Powerful).
I never saw the original Poltergeist - or any of its subsequent sequels - but I'm well aware of the supposed 'curse' surrounding these films including actors and actresses mysteriously dying as well as on-going set problems.
Hopefully nothing 'supernatural' occurs with this new film.
Source: Deadline
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