Keanu Reeves and Jim Carrey to Co-Star in Ana Lily Amirpour's ‘The Bad Batch’

Keanu Reeves and Jim Carrey have joined Suki Waterhouse, Diego Luna and Jason Momoa in the cast of Ana Lily Amirpour's The Bad Batch, a film she describes as "a post-apocalyptic cannibal love story set in a Texas wasteland" where a "muscled cannibal breaks the rule 'don't play with your food'" and "It's Road Warrior meets Pretty in Pink with a dope soundtrack."

Reeves plays the character called 'The Dream' while Carrey is set to portray 'The Hermit.' Waterhouse is cast as Arlen, Luna as Jimmy and Momoa will star as 'the Miami Man,' rumored to be the cannibal who will be seen falling in love with his food.

The Bad Batch, a co-production between Annapurna Pictures and VICE, is set to start shooting in Los Angeles next month. It is expected to be ready for marketing at this year's Cannes Film Festival. Annapurna's Megan Ellison will produce with VICE's Danny Gabai and Sina Sayyah.  Sammy Scher is overseeing for Annapurna, while Shane Smith and Eddy Moretti will handle the project for VICE.

Amirpour, who will direct and write the screenplay for The Bad Batch, is best known for her feature film debut A Girl Walks Home Alone at Night which premiered at the 2014 Sundance Film Festival and for which she won the Gotham Award for Breakthrough Director. The film which she describes as "the first Iranian vampire spaghetti western" also won the Revelations Prize at the 2014 Deauville Film Festival and the Carnet Jove Jury Award as well as the Citizen Kane Award for Best Directorial Revelation at the Sitges Film Festival. VICE acquired A Girl Walks Home Alone at Night which will it be releasing in the US for public theater showing on November 21.

Amirpour made her first film at age 12, a horror movie starring guests of a slumber party. She has a varied background in the arts including painting and sculpting, and was bass player and frontwoman of an art rock band before moving to Los Angeles to make films.