{"id":412329,"date":"2025-09-10T05:21:11","date_gmt":"2025-09-10T05:21:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/412329\/"},"modified":"2025-09-10T05:21:11","modified_gmt":"2025-09-10T05:21:11","slug":"emile-hirsch-in-horror-comedy-lice-exclusive-first-look-image","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/412329\/","title":{"rendered":"Emile Hirsch in Horror-Comedy &#8216;Lice&#8217;: Exclusive First Look Image"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/  a-font-body-m     \">\n\tHigh school can really get under your skin, as <a href=\"https:\/\/www.hollywoodreporter.com\/t\/emile-hirsch\/\" id=\"auto-tag_emile-hirsch_1\" data-tag=\"emile-hirsch\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Emile Hirsch<\/a> is discovering in this exclusive first look image from the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.hollywoodreporter.com\/t\/horror\/\" id=\"auto-tag_horror_1\" data-tag=\"horror\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">horror<\/a>-comedy\u00a0Lice.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/  a-font-body-m     \">\n\tHirsch stars in the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.hollywoodreporter.com\/t\/film\/\" id=\"auto-tag_film_1\" data-tag=\"film\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">film<\/a>, which is in post-production, as a burned-out science teacher, Mr. Shanker, whose school is thrown into chaos when a parasite begins infecting the student body, turning the teenagers into maniacs. The uninfected students and staff are left to reign in the chaos and get to the bottom of the illness \u2014 a possible government experiment gone wrong. And, in a first look at the film, Hirsch\u2019s Mr. Shanker is clearly not having a good time.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/  a-font-body-m     \">\n\tElsewhere in the movie, from director Jonathan Bensimon, are the overwhelmed and over-imbibing Principal Van (<a href=\"https:\/\/www.hollywoodreporter.com\/movies\/movie-news\/justin-long-recalls-working-alan-rickman-galaxy-quest-1236094532\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Justin Long<\/a>) and Detective Sikorski (<a href=\"https:\/\/www.hollywoodreporter.com\/tv\/tv-news\/kevin-connolly-newborn-daughter-recovery-covid-19-1234987969\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Kevin Connolly<\/a>), who is working outside the school grounds to contain the outbreak before it consumes the entire town.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/  a-font-body-m     \">\n\tConnelly is pulling double duty, producing under Connolly\u2019s ActionPark Productions banner, with Jeremy Alter and Gary Goldman also acting as producers.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/  a-font-body-m     \">\n\tAnthony Musella and Lizze Gordo wrote the screenplay for\u00a0Lice,\u00a0which is for sale out of the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.hollywoodreporter.com\/t\/toronto-film-festival\/\" id=\"auto-tag_toronto-film-festival_1\" data-tag=\"toronto-film-festival\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Toronto Film Festival<\/a> with Highland Film Group handling international sales.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"High school can really get under your skin, as Emile Hirsch is discovering in this exclusive first look&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":412330,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3935],"tags":[141748,77,3063,986,3943,107761,140784,138490,16,15],"class_list":{"0":"post-412329","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-movies","8":"tag-emile-hirsch","9":"tag-entertainment","10":"tag-film","11":"tag-horror","12":"tag-movies","13":"tag-tiff-2025","14":"tag-toronto-2025","15":"tag-toronto-film-festival","16":"tag-uk","17":"tag-united-kingdom"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/115178326269819483","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/412329","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=412329"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/412329\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/412330"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=412329"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=412329"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=412329"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}