Let the LARPing continue. Steve Zahn, Peter Dinklage and Ryan Kwanten will team up for Joe Lynch’s upcoming “Knights of Badassdom.” The “Wrong Turn 2” director is set to begin principal photography on the project very soon, and while the full plot details have yet to be released, we do know this horror-comedy will feature the bizarre world of live-action role playing, better known as LARP. The film will follow a group of larpers who “conjure up a demon from hell by mistake and must deal with the consequences.”
Kwanten, best known as the playboy with a heart of mush Jason Stackhouse on HBO’s “True Blood,” told Access Hollywood that ‘Knights’ is “like ‘Shaun of the Dead’ meets ‘Role Models.’ It’s a real black comedy”. The jokes seem to write themselves when it comes to the role playing community, but hopefully this flick is more than just a one-note comedy, if only for Kwanten. This will be one of the first major roles for the “True Blood” actor since the success of his vampire soap opera and while his charm has worked on TV, he hasn’t had the chance to make his mark on the big screen. Kevin Dreyfuss and Matt Wall penned the screenplay and filming begins in Spokane, Washington later this summer.