Producers are about to announce they have cast Paris Hilton in Repo! The Genetic Opera, a rock opera/horror film that begins a six-week shoot in Toronto on Sept. 10.
The movie, based on a successful theatrical production by Terrence Zdunich and Darren Smith, is about an organ failure epidemic in 2056 that forces people to purchase genetically perfect ones from Geneco, a biotech company committed to collecting regular payments.
?The idea is that everybody is buying up organs, and they cannot afford to pay for these organs,? director Darren Lynn Bousman recently told MTV. ?Thus, legalized organ repo-men come into the picture. Murder becomes sanctioned by law. So, if you buy a heart and can’t afford it, someone can burst through the door and take your heart out? and they don?t get in trouble for it.”
Bousman, who made the last two Saw films and the upcoming Saw IV in Toronto, will direct Repo!, in which the dialogue is completely sung.
At a fundraising event in Hollywood on Tuesday night, Hilton declined to reveal specifics but admitted she is in rehearsals for a ?very cool and unique project.? She told E! Online: ??We?re just in the studio. We?re doing dance and singing.?
