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Nina Dobrev Joins ‘Arrivals’ Pic With Asa Butterfield & Maisie Williams

star Nina Dobrev is taking another trip to the big screen. Coming off the Toronto Film Festival and SpectreFest screenings of horror comedy

’ Maisie Williams in the Peter Hutchings-directed coming-of-age indie.

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earlier this year after six seasons, will play American flight attendant Izzy, who is the love interest of Butterfield’s character. The screenplay by Fergal Rock was a 2013 Academy Nicholl semifinalist. The pic, produced by BCDF Pictures and Kalahari Films & Media, is set to start shooting in South Africa this winter.

Butterfield’s Calvin is a hypochondriac college dropout who now works as a baggage handler at Cape Town airport. In a funk, he is pulled into the unconventional bucket list quest of Brit teen Skye, played by

this season. That team-up helps Calvin to face his deepest fears.

, Dobrev will be seen October 9 on the big screen in the limited release of

. Having debuted at SXSW, the Todd Strauss-Schulson directed film also stars Malin Akerman and

alum Dobrev previously appeared in last year’s

Dobrev is repped by CAA, Brillstein Entertainment Partners and Hansen Jacobson.

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