FX legend Tom Savini, who flexes his directing and acting muscles in the WET DREAMS segment of THE THEATRE BIZARRE, revealed another upcoming onscreen turn to Fango while attending Montreal’s Fantasia festival last month for that anthology’s premiere. He’ll be seen in the film version of the popular youth novel THE PERKS OF BEING A WALLFLOWER.

Written and directed by the book’s author, Stephen Chbosky, and set to be released by Summit Entertainment, THE PERKS OF BEING A WALLFLOWER stars PERCY JACKSON’s Logan Lerman as Charlie, a teenager dealing with the pleasures and perils of his freshman year of high school. The cast also includes HARRY POTTER’s Emma Watson, Paul Rudd, THE VAMPIRE DIARIES’ Nina Dobrev, AMERICAN HORROR STORY’s Dylan McDermott, Kate Walsh and HEAVENLY CREATURES’ Melanie Lynskey. The movie lensed in Chbosky’s hometown of Pittsburgh, and the filmmaker cast local hero Savini as a shop teacher.

“The director was a big fan—otherwise I wouldn’t be hired, you know, because usually when movies come to Pittsburgh, they’ve got their cast and everything,” Savini tells us. “But he specifically searched me out. It’s a pivotal part, he says, because I nickname one of the main characters ‘Nothing.’ His name is Patrick [played by Ezra Miller], and I call him ‘Pattycakes,’ and he says, ‘No, no. Call me Patrick or nothing.’ And I say, ‘OK, Nothing.’ And then the whole high school starts calling him Nothing. That’s my part, to nickname him Nothing, and he does a complete turnaround and gets even.”

Savini will also be seen on screen soon in the title role of THE SADIST, in the Aussie horror film REDD INC. and as the Sheriff of Nottingham in the 3D ROBIN HOOD: GHOSTS OF SHERWOOD; go here for our latest story on the latter film.

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