Caleb Landry Johnson joins 'Byzantium'

EXCLUSIVE: Caleb Landry Johnson has arrived a mans lead in "Byzantium" directed by Neil Jordan.The pic presently stars Saoirse Ronan and Gemma Arterton and is dependant on the Moira Buffini play.Story involves a parent and daughter who're vampires of the underworld and arrive in a tiny British town revealing their secret towards the town. Johnson plays a teen dying of leukemia which in turns forces him to have a problem with his mortality, leading to Saorsie Ronan's character to have a problem with her very own growing old.Buffini also composed the script with Elizabeth Karlsen and Stephen Woolley creating.Johnson was most lately observed in Fox's "X-Males: Top ClassInch and is visible next within the Universal/Working Title co-production "Contraband" starring Mark Wahlberg.He's repped by Paradigm, Untitled and Blossom Hergott Diemer Rosenthal Laviolette Feldman Schenkman & Goodman. Contact Justin Kroll at justin.kroll@variety.com