<Li> Nadji Jeter as "Poundcake" </Li> <Li> Alex MacNicoll as "Flintstone" </Li> <P> In March 2012, Columbia Pictures picked up the film rights to the trilogy, with Graham King and Tobey Maguire attached as producers . On April 15, 2014, it was officially announced that Chloë Grace Moretz would star as Cassie Sullivan, and that J Blakeson would direct from a script by Susannah Grant . From June through August 2014, Nick Robinson and Alex Roe joined the film as male protagonists Ben Parish and Evan Walker, respectively, while Liev Schreiber was cast as the villain . Over the following months, Maika Monroe, Zackary Arthur, Tony Revolori, Ron Livingston, Maggie Siff, and Talitha Bateman joined the film . </P> <P> Principal photography began on October 18, 2014, in Atlanta, Georgia . Three months later, on January 11, a planned explosion of a bus in downtown Macon, Georgia for the film went awry when it spread wider than planned, blowing out more than forty windows on Cotton Avenue, collapsing ceilings, destroying store fronts, setting one building on fire, and leaving soot on the brick buildings as well . The production company promised to cover all damages caused by the 3: 45 am incident, but the work that was done was done badly and remains incomplete twenty - eight months later . Filming officially ended on January 17, 2015 . </P>

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