Ron Perlman has joined Angels in Darkness, placing him alongside Cuba Gooding Jr. in Ali Zamani’s neo-noir fantasy thriller. Daniel Stisen also joins the cast, giving the film a broader lead lineup as it moves deeper into production. The project is being built for the U.S. and Canada through Uncorked Entertainment.
Ali Zamani expands the ensemble
The casting adds to an ensemble that already includes James Oliver Wheatley, Robert Goodman, Agathe Levi and Sam Nejad. That means the film is not being shaped around a single star turn; it is being assembled as a layered feature with several moving parts in play before release. For readers tracking the project, the immediate change is simple: the cast is no longer just a headline pairing of Perlman and Gooding Jr., but a wider group with enough range to support a noir-driven thriller.
Ali Zamani said, “Ron and Daniel each bring a presence that elevates the film in a major way.” Zeus Zamani added, “With Ron Perlman and Daniel Stisen joining Cuba Gooding Jr. and our ensemble, the film continues to evolve into something truly special, and we couldn’t ask for a better partner than Uncorked to bring it to audiences.”
Grounded noir, supernatural stakes
“We’re building a world that fuses grounded noir with supernatural stakes,” Zamani said, and that is the pressure point inside the project. Angels in Darkness follows a troubled private investigator who uncovers a secret cult’s plan to unleash an ancient force, so the film has to balance a crime-story spine with a much larger fantasy engine. That combination gives the casting news extra weight: Perlman’s arrival suggests the production is leaning into the darker, more ominous side of the material rather than playing it as straight genre pastiche.
Zamani and Cuba Gooding Jr. previously worked together on Angels Fallen: Warriors of Peace, which gives this reunion some continuity even as the new film widens its cast and its tonal range. The practical takeaway is that the project now has named stars, a clear genre identity and U.S. and Canada distribution attached, but no release date yet, so the next meaningful update will be when the film gets a calendar slot or a production milestone.
For now, the smart read is that Angels in Darkness is moving from casting announcement to marketable package. With Perlman, Gooding Jr. and Stisen all on board, the film has enough recognizable names to travel, but its value will depend on how cleanly it holds that noir-supernatural split when audiences finally see it.
