I’ve added some screen captures from Nico’s recently released flick ‘Odd Thomas’ in which Nico portrays a goofy cop named Simon Varner! Check out the captures in the gallery and make sure to check out the movie as well!

Here is the official trailer for Nico’s flick, ‘Odd Thomas’, which just recently found distribution in the US! Can’t wait to see more!

According to Reelz Channel production on “Odd Thomas” was put on hiatus:

Production on director Stephen Sommers’ (The Mummy, G.I. Joe) movie was abruptly halted earlier this week, reportedly over financing troubles, REELZCHANNEL has learned.
According to an email sent by The Screen Actor’s Guild, the movie’s production company, Two Out of Ten Productions, is in default under a SAG agreement.
The email further states that SAG members should not work on Odd Thomas until further instructed.
The movie had started filming in and around Albuquerque and Santa Fe in May.
On Location Casting, an extra casting agency working on Odd Thomas posted a Facebook message saying the movie is on a brief hiatus.
The production was said to employ about 100 local crewmembers and more than 15 principal and background talent. […]

As I reported in the previous article Nico was recently cast in “Odd Thomas”, the movie adaptation of novelist Dean Koontz book by the same title.

Stephen Sommers (“The Mummy” and “G.I. Joe”) has written the screenplay and will be directing the feature, produced independently by Howard Kaplan (“The Good Sheperd”) and John Baldecchi (“The Mexican”). Already confirmed to star are Anton Yelchin (“Star Trek” – as the title charachter, a short-order cook who can commune with the dead), Addison Timlin (“Californication” – as Stormy, Odd’s girlfriend), Willem Dafoe (“The Aviator” – as Wyatt Porter, the local police chief) and as of last night, comedian Patton Oswalt (“United States of Tara” – as Ozzie, an eccentric artist who designs sculptures).

All we know for sure is that Nico will play the villain, an officer working under Wyatt Porter, secretly a member of a Satanic cult bent on destroying the town. The book features two characters that match this criteria: Officer Bern Eckles (that I would rule out since he is described in the casting sides as being “Big, Strong, muscular”) and Officer Simon Varner (my guess), described in the casting sides as “a handsome, smart cop” and in the original book as having “a face as sweet as that of any host of a children’s TV program, with heavy-lidded eyes like those of the late actor Robert Mitchum”.

The film shoots in Santa Fe and Albuquerque (New Mexico) from May 12 through July 15, 2011.

Nico has joined the cast of “Odd Thomas”, a movie based on a serie of thriller books. According to The Hollywood Reporter:

Nico Tortorella, who is one of the key players in the class of 2011 actors in Scream 4, is in negotiations to nab the villain role in Odd Thomas, Stephen Sommers’ adaptation of the Dean Koontz book series.
Fusion Films’ John Baldecchi and Howard Kaplan are producing with Sommers, who wrote the screenplay and is directing.
The story centers on a short-order cook named Odd Thomas (played by Anton Yelchin) who can commune with the dead, a secret only his girlfriend (Addison Timlin) and the local police (Willem Dafoe) chief know.

The young man can also spot malevolent forces called bodachs, who feed on pain and portent imminent death. When Odd sees them in spades surrounding a stranger, he finds himself in a race against time to avert a catastrophe.
Tortorella will play an officer working under Dafoe, secretly a member of a Satanic cult bent on destroying the town.
The movie, with a budget in the $20-30 million range, is due to shoot in New Mexico later this spring and summer.

In Scream 4, Tortorella, repped by Gersh, plays Emma Roberts’ ex-boyfriend who mysteriously pops up at convenient times during the movie.
His other credits include Twelve, directed by Joel Schumacher, and ABC Family’s Make It of Break It.