Irish director Gerard Barrett's next nets Chloe Moretz

The Irish director of Glassland, Gerard Barrett, has been looking for a new castmember for Brain on Fire and he's found his Hit Girl

Irish director Gerard Barrett financed his first film Pilgrim Hill with a Credit Union loan of a couple of grand back in 2013. Now he's making a film with Charlize Theron and had just cast Chloe Grace Moretz. That's a hell of a career trajectory.

The new movie is called Brain on Fire and Barrett was sought out by Theron who owns the rights to Susannah Cahalan's 2012 book. It's a true story about what happened when the author fell ill with a mysterious illness which caused her to become violent and lose large amounts of time, and her path through ineffective medical treatment and beyond.