The Scorpion<\/em> follows Kit (O\u2019Hara), \u201ca struggling young woman whose dream of launching her own clothing line has stalled. Desperate for money, she accepts a mysterious job at a cutting-edge cosmetics lab that claims to have eliminated animal testing in favor of willing human participants. As Kit becomes increasingly entangled in the lab\u2019s bizarre experiments \u2014 involving perfumes, chemicals, and invasive procedures \u2014 her life begins to improve, even as disturbing physical and psychological changes begin to surface.\u201d Above is a publicity still of O\u2019Hara in prep for the film.<\/p>\n\n\tBehtiyar co-leads as Lizzie, a \u201cwinsome new recruit at the experimental cosmetics clinic who forms a deep bond with another test subject as the women endure increasingly disturbing physical and psychological transformations.\u201d<\/p>\n
\n\tAllard serves as a development executive at Exile Entertainment, the management and production company led by Gary Ungar, rep to Guillermo Del Toro, Jennifer Kent, Mathieu Kassovitz and more. His scripts have previously been optioned by companies Caviar and Endless Media.<\/p>\n
\n\tThe Scorpion<\/em> is produced by Raechel Zarzynski (Tender<\/em>), Kathy Sue Holtorf (300 Feet Tall<\/em>), Garrett Recker, and Greg Elam, with Independent Spirit Award\u2013winning producer Corey Moosa (Margin Call<\/em>) also executive-producing.<\/p>\n\n\tThe feature, which is due to shot in LA later this year, is being lensed by Davon Slininger, a longtime camera operator known for his collaborations with David O. Russell and Damien Chazelle.<\/p>\n
\n\tBehtiyar earned a Gotham Award nomination for Breakthrough Performance in Preparation for the Next Life<\/em>. O\u2019Hara recently wrapped on body horror film Snare<\/em>, in which she stars opposite Wicked<\/em> breakout Marissa Bode and Mission: Impossible<\/em> actor Greg Tarzan Davis.<\/p>\n\n\tBehtiyar is represented by UTA and Authentic; O\u2019Hara by Anonymous Content, Verve, Park Artists, and Fox Rothschild; and Allard by Folio Literary Management.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n
\u2018 The preceding article may include information circulated by third parties \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n \u2018 Some details of this article were extracted from the following source deadline.com \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"EXCLUSIVE: Gotham Award nominee Sebiye Behtiyar (Preparation for the Next Life) and Emmy nominee Sonja O\u2019Hara (Snare) are to star in writer-director Zachary Allard\u2019s horror feature debut, The Scorpion. The Scorpion follows Kit (O\u2019Hara), \u201ca struggling young woman whose dream of launching her own clothing line has stalled. Desperate for money, she accepts a mysterious […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":2364216,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"jnews-multi-image_gallery":[],"jnews_single_post":[],"jnews_primary_category":[],"jnews_social_meta":[],"footnotes":""},"categories":[25172],"tags":[459361],"class_list":["post-2364215","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-entertainment","tag-the-scorpion"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/Sonja-OHara-And-Sebiye-Behtiyar-Lead-Horror-The-Scorpion.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2364215","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2364215"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2364215\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2364217,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2364215\/revisions\/2364217"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2364216"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2364215"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2364215"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2364215"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}