Chloë Grace Moretz will star in The Edge Of Normal, a new serial-killer thriller from XYZ Films. Carlota Pereda (Piggy) will make her first English-language feature, directing from a script by Matt Venne (Dexter: Resurrection, Test Drive) with revisions by Lori Evans Taylor (Final Destination: Bloodlines), based on Carla Norton’s acclaimed novel of the same name from St. Martin’s Press.
Reeve LeClaire (Moretz) is still haunted from when she was held captive as a teenager by a sadistic man, but when her psychiatrist asks her to mentor a newly rescued survivor, she’s pulled into a chilling game of cat-and-mouse—one that threatens to drag her back into the nightmare she barely escaped.
XYZ Films is producing and financing with funding from IPR.VC. Vanishing Angle will produce alongside Andrew Deane and Ava Jamshidi for Industry Entertainment.
Moretz recently starred in The Peripheral for Amazon, The Miseducation Of Cameron Post which was awarded the Sundance Grand Jury Prize, and the Oscar Nominated Animated film, “Nimona,” for Netflix. She will next appear in Michael Showalter’s Oh What Fun opposite Michelle Pfeiffer and Felicity Jones for Amazon MGM, as well as Joey Powers’ Love Language opposite Anthony Ramos.
Pereda is a bilingual writer-director based in Spain. Her feature debut, Piggy (Cerdita), had its world premiere at Sundance in 2022 and was released by Magnolia Pictures. The project was selected in 2020 at script stage for the Cannes Film Festival’s Focus Coproduction Initiative. Piggy expands on Carlota’s celebrated short of the same title, which marked her breakthrough as a film director, and has since won 90 awards, including the Spanish Academy Goya Award for Best Short Film in 2019, and the 2020 Slamdance AGBO Fellowship. Carlota has also worked in television for the past 20 years, most notably with Money Heist creator Alex Pina. She studied film at UCLA.
Moretz is represented by CAA and Robert Offer and Shelby Weiser from Sloane, Offer, Weber, Dern. Pereda is represented by CAA and Peter Van Steemburg at XYZ. Venne is represented by IAG and Heroes and Villains Entertainment and Peter Sample at Jackoway Austen Tyerman Wertheimer Mandelbaum Morris Bernstein Trattner Auerbach Hynick Jaime LeVine Sample & Klein. Taylor is represented by WME, Kaplan / Perrone Entertainment and Rob Goldman at McKuin Frankel Whitehead LLP. Norton is repped by Liza Dawson Associates and IAG.