Michael Biehn Returns to Studio Action Movies With Adam Wingard’s ‘Onslaught’ (Exclusive)

Michael Biehn, the actor who starred in James Cameron’s iconic Nineteen Eighties films The Terminator and Aliens, is returning to studio films.

The actor has spent the final couple of many years working within the low-budget thriller area outdoors the Hollywood mainstream, however has now joined the rising solid of Onslaught, the motion thriller that Adam Wingard is directing for A24.

Reginald VelJohnson, the Household Issues actor who can also be remembered for his function in motion traditional Die Onerous, and comic Eric Wareheim (Tim & Eric) have additionally signed for the characteristic, which will get beneath approach this month.

Lyrical Media and Ryder Image Firm are additionally backing the image, which stars Adria Arjona in addition to Wingard favourite Dan Stevens, UFC Mild Heavyweight Champion Alex “Poatan” Pereira, and Queer actor Drew Starkey.

Many particulars for Onslaught are being stored in an underground experimental facility, however sources describe it as a gonzo motion horror thriller.

Arjona is starring as a mom residing in a trailer who falls again on a selected set of expertise so as to defend her family members after she runs afoul of a risk that has escaped a secret army base.

Biehn will play a pacesetter of an elite group of mercenaries who strive to reign within the risk.

VelJohnson is taking part in a member of the mom’s trailer park neighborhood as is Wareheim.

As beforehand reported, Pereira is the chief villain of the story, a personality named The Butcher. Stevens will play a German scientist engaged on the experiments that escape.

Aaron Ryder and Andrew Swett will produce Onslaught beneath their Ryder Image Firm banner alongside A24. Additionally producing is Alexander Black for Lyrical Media. Wingard and supervisor Jeremy Platt may also produce, by way of their new shingle Breakaway Civilization, together with Barrett.

Lyrical and A24 will co-finance, with A24 dealing with worldwide releasing. Lyrical’s Jon Rosenberg and Natalie Sellers will function govt producers with A24.

Aside for his function as soldier from the longer term Kyle Reese and Colonial Marine Corporal Hicks, Biehn has had roles in films starting from Cameron’s The Abyss to the Western Tombstone to Michael Bay’s The Rock.

His final work for a significant manufacturing was a component in Robert Rodriguez’s Planet Terror, launched in 2007. Though his film output has consisted of low-budget motion film fare, the actor has popped up in mainstream TV in recent times, with appearances in The Mandalorian, The Strolling Useless, and Legislation & Order: Organized Crime. He’s repped by Realm Expertise and Berwick & Kovacik. 

VelJohnson, who appeared in Disney’s current Turner & Hooch collection and voiced a personality on Amazon’s Invincible, is repped by David Shapira & Associates and The Beddingfield Firm.

UTA-repped Wareheim is one-half of Tim & Eric, a comedy crew that additionally consists of Tim Heidecker. The duo have written, produced, directed and acted in a quite a few exhibits for Grownup Swim. Wareheim additionally appeared in and acted in a producer capability on Aziz Ansari’s Grasp of None.