MUMBAI: Anton Yelchin, who starred in Star Trek Into Darkness and The Twilight Saga’s Ashley Greene will star in Joe Dante’s indie horror-comedy, Burying the Ex.

To produce the film, Nicolas Chartier’s Voltage Pictures has come aboard.

Alan Trezza has written the story of the film in which the lead characters - Max (Yelchin) and Evelyn (Greene) move in together as their relationship takes a nose dive. But soon Max discovers that Evelyn quite controlling and manipulative. However, he’s too scared to break up with her. When fate steps in and Evelyn dies in an accident, newly-single Max prepares to move on with Olivia (Daddario). His romantic life becomes complicated when Evelyn rises from the grave and sets out to get her boyfriend back, even if that means turning him into one of the undead.

The production of the movie is scheduled to start on Monday in Los Angeles.