According to The Hollywood Reporter, Alan Cumming is starring in and directing Suffering Man's Charity, a dark comedy that also stars David Boreanaz, Anne Heche, Henry Thomas and Carrie Fisher.

DJ Paul, Donald Zuckerman and Craig Snider are producing the low-budget indie, which is in production in Los Angeles.

Boreanaz plays a struggling writer who is accidentally killed by Cumming one evening. Cumming discovers the writer's novel and ends up taking credit for penning it. When it becomes a success, the writer comes back to haunt him.