Mother's Day Remake Begins Casting

Last we heard about this project director Darren Lynn Bousman was busy looking at locations to shoot his Mother's Day remake. Today THR reports that Jaime King, Shawn Ashmore, Briana Evigan, Alexa Vega and Matt O'Leary are in talks to join the production.

The original "Mother's Day" revolved around three female friends who, while camping, run afoul of two brothers who engage in murder and rape to impress their deranged mother. The new version, written by Scott Milam, is being remolded as a psychological thriller in which the wicked family returns to the house where they grew up to terrorize the new owners and their guests.

King will play the woman of the house, a wife who has lost her child and is isolating herself from her husband. Ashmore and Evigan will play guests at the house. O'Leary ("CSI") is one of Mother's sons, joining the already cast Deborah Ann Woll as members of the family.

Bousman is definitely taking this movie in a new direction based on what he told the trades, "What we're trying to do is elevate this outside of a genre movie," Bousman said. "I've done three 'Saw' films, I've done 'Repo,' and yes, this is horrific at times, but it's much darker and deeper because of the focus on the characters."