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In 2021, a Tampa family lost $20,000 to a hacker. The first 10 minutes of Hacked: A Double Entendre of Rage Fueled Karma are based on those true events.

The rest? That’s what they wish they could have done to the bastard. And vengeance has never been so fun.

The revenge comedy is written and directed by actor Shane Brady.

Chandler Riggs (“The Walking Dead”), Owen Atlas (Little Evil), Collin Thompson, Katelyn Nacon (“The Walking Dead”), Richard Riehle (Hatchet), Augie Duke (“Mayans M.C.”), Mia Castillo, Brittney Escalante (“9-1-1 Lonestar”), Glenn Stanton (“The Walking Dead”), and Hugh Scott (Deadpool) star.

The Rumble family’s dream of buying their first home turns into a nightmare when Florida’s most elusive hacker, known only as The Chameleon, steals their life savings. But this hacker messed with the wrong family. The banking system failed them. The police won’t help.

Furious and desperate, they...

Chandler Riggs is best known for playing the character Carl Grimes on eight seasons of The Walking Dead, but he has a few horror credits beyond that one – the short Jesus H. Zombie, the Stephen King-inspired Mercy, and the home invasion film Keep Watching. Now Variety reports that Riggs has signed on to star in the horror comedy Hacked, which has secured a SAG Interim agreement so it will be able to go into production during the ongoing Screen Actors Guild strike and is expected to start filming soon in Los Angeles and Tampa.

Shane Brady (Breathing Happy) will be directing the film, which is partially inspired by true events. Brady and producer Emily Zercher were hacked in 2021, and according to Variety “the first ten minutes of the film will be based on their experience. The rest of the film shows ‘what they wish they could have done to that bastard.

Chandler Riggs, the actor who grew up playing Carl Grimes on “The Walking Dead,” is set to return to the genre once more in Hacked. Variety reports today that the upcoming horror-comedy has been granted an interim agreement by SAG-AFTRA and is set to begin production soon.

Hacked follows “the story of a family who loses everything to a prolific and elusive hacker, aptly named ‘The Chameleon.’ Parents Amy (Augie Duke) and Mark (Shane Brady) have $20,000 stolen, and their kids Ralph (Owen Atlas) and Freddy (Collin Thompson) get their entire digital lives hacked — social media, video game items, even their pointless online homework! When the bank, social media platforms, and law enforcement aren’t able to help, the family takes matters into their own hands.”

It’s up to the capable true crime documentary obsessed kids to take down the hacker. Riggs will play the elusive antagonist called “The Chameleon.

Shane Brady’s upcoming horror-comedy “Hacked,” starring Chandler Riggs, Owen Atlas, Collin Thompson and Augie Duke, is set to begin production in Los Angeles and Tampa.

The indie film was granted an interim agreement by SAG-AFTRA to begin production amid the union’s ongoing strike.

“Hacked” was partially inspired by true events; producer Emily Zercher and Shane Brady were hacked in 2021, and the first ten minutes of the film are based on their experience. The rest of the film shows “what they wish they could have done to that bastard.”

According to the official logline, “’Hacked’ follows the story of a family who loses everything to a prolific and elusive hacker, aptly named ‘The Chameleon.’ Parents Amy (Augie Duke) and Mark (Shane Brady) have $20,000 stolen, and their kids Ralph (Owen Atlas) and Freddy (Collin Thompson) get their entire digital lives hacked — social media, video game items, even their pointless online homework!

Colman Domingo is entering the Batcave. The actor, who is in the Oscars race thanks to his work in civil rights drama Rustin, will voice Batman in the Spotify limited series The Riddler: Secrets In The Dark.

Comedian Hasan Minhaj stars in Secrets in the Dark, which comes after Minhaj voiced the Batman villain in Spotify’s Batman: Unburied. The new series, which bows Oct. 10, forces Batman to team with Edward Nygma (The Riddler) to stop a mysterious vigilante who is killing Gotham’s villains — including The Riddler. Winston Duke previously voiced Batman in Batman Unburied.

The cast of Secrets in the Dark also includes Gina Rodriguez as Barbara Gordon, Calum Worthy as The Messenger, Hannah Simone as Nadira, Peyton Crim as Killer Croc, Jim Pirri as Arnold Flass, Jason Isaacs as Alfred, Ashly Burch as Vicki Vale, Hugh Scott as Calendar Man, Bri Giger as Summer Gleeson, Aflamu Johnson...

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