The casting process recently started for the The Town That Dreaded Sundown remake and we have one more name to add to the list. Joining previously announced Addison Timlin in the movie is Travis Tope.

According to THR, Timlin will play "a young high schooler being raised by her grandmother who’s targeted by the mysterious killer," while Tope will be a "classmate who befriends Timlin’s character and decides to make a documentary about the search for the killer."

As you can tell from the character information above, this is not exactly a remake. Previously, it was reported that the movie would revolve around a girl who survives a copycat massacre at the films' annual tribute screening. The new report says that "the story centers on a rural Texarkana town that was stalked by a serial killer in 1946. The maniac was never caught and in 2013, he comes back." There's a little bit of conflicting information there, but we'll have more plot details in the near future.

Ryan Murphy and Jason Blum have teamed up to produce the film, with American Horror Story: Asylum's Alfonso Gomez-Rejon making his feature debut as the director of this project. The script was written by Roberto Aguirre-Sacasa (Carrie remake) and filming is expected to begin this May in Louisiana.

The original movie was directed by Charles B. Pierce and distributed by American International Pictures. Shout! Factory recently announced that the original movie will be part of their upcoming Scream Factory line-up and we'll see it released to Blu-ray next month:

"In 1946, the joy and relief over the ending of World War II, and the happiness over the prosperity that followed, was destroyed for the residents of Texarkana by a series of traumatic experiences that many still remember. In the Spring of that year, five townspeople were brutally murdered and three brought to near death by a masked madman who eluded capture by the Texas Rangers and a host of other law enforcement agencies. This true-to-life thriller is a dramatization of those five still unsolved murders which sent local residents into a panic and caused their town to become an armed camp after sundown."

Source: THR