Following his breakthrough role in 2011 with J.J. Abrams‘ Super 8, Child Actor Ryan Lee, 16, has been on a casting roll, most recently in the upcoming indie teen drama, White Rabbit.  According to IMDBPro, the story of White Rabbit follows a high school bully who starts having visions of a rabbit that he killed when he was a kid, soon putting him in a state where his imagination threatens to cause him to carry out violent acts of revenge. Lee will play the bully’s bestie.

White Rabbitt is written by Anthony Di Pietro, directed by Tim McCann, and produced by Robert Yocum of Burning Sky Films, Shaun Sanghani and Jacky Morgan. It’s scheduled for release August 31, 2013.

Lee starred in this past spring’s release Meeting Evil, with Luke Wilson and Samuel L. Jackson and can next be seen in Judd Apatow‘s forthcoming sequel to Knocked Up, titled This is 40, in which he plays the love interest of fellow child star Maude Apatow, Judd’s daughter.

Lee is represented by ICM Talent Partners, Atherton Group Talent, and Principato Young Entertainment.