A slightly different edit of the synopsis for the untitled Drake Doremus feature as of a late June draft of the casting call:

STORY LINE: A well to do up-state New York family, primarily the father/husband, is turned upside-down with the arrival of an English foreign exchange student who unwittingly exposes the families base level, instinctual qualities. A story about thinking with your heart before your head, and the price that is paid for doing so. To be mostly improvised from a highly structured and detailed outline…

Other characters being casted are Clément: a good looking French exchange student staying with Sebecks (I suppose this is the surname of the main family); and Lauren a girl who, among other things, tries to seduce Aaron (Nico’s character) back after sleeping with him.

According to articles production started on August 13 in New York. On an unrelated note, “Odd Thomas” wrapped filming yesterday.

According to Reelz Channel production on “Odd Thomas” was put on hiatus:

Production on director Stephen Sommers’ (The Mummy, G.I. Joe) movie was abruptly halted earlier this week, reportedly over financing troubles, REELZCHANNEL has learned.
According to an email sent by The Screen Actor’s Guild, the movie’s production company, Two Out of Ten Productions, is in default under a SAG agreement.
The email further states that SAG members should not work on Odd Thomas until further instructed.
The movie had started filming in and around Albuquerque and Santa Fe in May.
On Location Casting, an extra casting agency working on Odd Thomas posted a Facebook message saying the movie is on a brief hiatus.
The production was said to employ about 100 local crewmembers and more than 15 principal and background talent. [...]

Nico is back on Twitter folks! Please give a warm welcome back to @_NicoTortorella! We missed his accidental pocket tweets, didn’t we? Ad his profile photo he has chosen a pic from the set of “Odd Thomas” (currently filming in New Mexico).

Gallery link:
- Movies > Odd Thomas > Misc on set photos (1)

As  I reported in the previous article Nico was recently cast in “Odd Thomas”, the movie adaptation of novelist Dean Koontz book by the same title.

Stephen Sommers (“The Mummy” and “G.I. Joe”) has written the screenplay and will be directing the feature, produced independently by Howard Kaplan (“The Good Sheperd”) and John Baldecchi (“The Mexican”). Already confirmed to star are Anton Yelchin (“Star Trek” – as the title charachter, a short-order cook who can commune with the dead), Addison Timlin (“Californication” – as Stormy, Odd’s girlfriend), Willem Dafoe (“The Aviator” – as Wyatt Porter, the local police chief) and as of last night, comedian Patton Oswalt (“United States of Tara” – as Ozzie, an eccentric artist who designs sculptures).

All we know for sure is that Nico will play the villain, an officer working under Wyatt Porter, secretly a member of a Satanic cult bent on destroying the town. The book features two characters that match this criteria: Officer Bern Eckles (that I would rule out since he is described in the casting sides as being “Big, Strong, muscular”) and Officer Simon Varner (my guess), described in the casting sides as “a handsome, smart cop” and in the original book as having “a face as sweet as that of any host of a children’s TV program, with heavy-lidded eyes like those of the late actor Robert Mitchum”.

The film shoots in Santa Fe and Albuquerque (New Mexico) from May 12 through July 15, 2011.

Nico has joined the cast of “Odd Thomas”, a movie based on a serie of thriller books. According to The Hollywood Reporter:

Nico Tortorella, who is one of the key players in the class of 2011 actors in Scream 4, is in negotiations to nab the villain role in Odd Thomas, Stephen Sommers’ adaptation of the Dean Koontz book series.
Fusion Films’ John Baldecchi and Howard Kaplan are producing with Sommers, who wrote the screenplay and is directing.
The story centers on a short-order cook named Odd Thomas (played by Anton Yelchin) who can commune with the dead, a secret only his girlfriend (Addison Timlin) and the local police (Willem Dafoe) chief know.

The young man can also spot malevolent forces called bodachs, who feed on pain and portent imminent death. When Odd sees them in spades surrounding a stranger, he finds himself in a race against time to avert a catastrophe.
Tortorella will play an officer working under Dafoe, secretly a member of a Satanic cult bent on destroying the town.
The movie, with a budget in the $20-30 million range, is due to shoot in New Mexico later this spring and summer.

In Scream 4, Tortorella, repped by Gersh, plays Emma Roberts’ ex-boyfriend who mysteriously pops up at convenient times during the movie.
His other credits include Twelve, directed by Joel Schumacher, and ABC Family’s Make It of Break It.