Michael Ironside, Leslie Zemeckis, and Rick Springfield join the cast of Deep Tissue, a comedy/thriller by writer-director P.J. Wolff.
The film follows a middle-aged, suburban couple (Jesse Hlubik and Jennifer Sommerfeld) as they work through their marital issues while becoming entangled with a Russian crime family.
Wolff is executive producing through his Hour of the Wolf banner. Emmy-winning producer Robert J. Sexton is producing, along with Valerie McCaffrey of McCaffrey Talent Management as co-producer.
Michael Ironside has starred in sci-fi classics such as Total Recall, Starship Troopers, and Scanners, and has appeared in the HBO series Barry.
Zemeckis’ credits include Here, Disney’s A Christmas Carol (2009), and The Polar Express. She recently directed the documentary Grandes Horizontales.
Pop/rock icon Rick Springfield starred opposite Meryl Streep in Jonathan Demme’s Ricki and the Flash and appeared in season 2 of HBO’s True Detective. Springfield last collaborated with Wolff on the 2021 concert documentary Rick Springfield: Orchestrating My Life.
Ironside is represented by Harry Gold at TalentWorks, Zemeckis by Valerie McCaffrey at McCaffrey Talent Management, and Springfield by Wayne Sharp at Crush Malibu.
