Alexa PenaVega to star in Edgar Allan Poe adaptation Tell-Tale Lies

Last Updated on August 2, 2021

Edgar Allan Poe’s The Tell-Tale Heart is on its way to the big screen as TELL-TALE LIES, which will modernize the classic chiller. Deadline reports that Beau Mirchoff, who stars on MTV’s Awkward, and Alexa PenaVega (below) will star. Synthetic Cinema International and Stargazer Films have begun production on the film directed by Colin Theys from John Doolan’s script.

Here’s what we know about the story:

It revolves around four friends at a prestigious university whose promising futures are jeopardized when they become connected to the accidental death of a classmate. When another student says she knows about their involvement, the friends panic and start to plot her murder.

Renee Olstead, Michael J. Willett, Bailey De Young, Sara Kapner, Ethan Phillips, Anthony Del Negro, Sean Patrick Thomas and John Heard also star.