Richard Dreyfuss, Lolita Davidovich, Nancy Travis, Evan Ross, Luke Grimes and Andrew Howard have joined the cast of independent film “Squatters” alongside the previously announced Thomas Dekker and Gabriella Wilde.

Martin Weisz is directing. Julius R. Nasso (“Narc”) and Cordulia Weisz are producing, and Frankie Nasso exec produces.

Script by Justin Shilton tells the story of a young homeless couple in Venice Beach who move into a mansion in Pacific Palisades. When the owners come home early from vacation, things get complicated.

Dreyfuss is represented by the Schiff Co.; Davidovich is repped by Don Buchwald & Associates/Fortitude; Travis by APA and Greenlight Management. Ross and Howard are represented by ICM, Grimes by Global Creative.

(From Variety.

Thomas told us exclusively, about Squatters:

“Squatters is a beautiful script with a visually visionary director. The moment I read the script, I decided no one else was going to take the role of Jonas away from me. This a very rare and very exciting feeling for me. There have only been a handful of roles I have played that I was insanely determined to acquire: Lance Loud (Cinema Verite), Ethan Denton (Angels Crest), Smith (Kaboom!), and this role was one of them. The character is smart, sensitive, mature, immature, reactionary and caring all at the same time and I am holding my breath to start filming a real challenge of a character again. It also takes place in the world of homeless youth in Los Angeles, which for both my film Whore and my screenplay The Walk of Fame, I had studied and emersed myself in for years. So I feel very comfortable embodying an individual in that landscape.”