Indeed, he'll be hard to ignore this year--not that you'll want to. Dead Man's Curve, in which he plays an obsessed collegian who schemes to murder his roommate and make it look like a suicide, was the biggest buzz film--and generated the biggest bidding war--of Sundance Festival '98.
So far, Paramount's Sherry Lansing is leading the chase (expected selling price: an astonishing high seven figures), but even before it hits theaters, Lillard's mug will be everywhere--literally. There's next month's Senseless, in which he's a punked-out hockey player opposite Marlon Wayans' sense-enhancing drug fiend; Telling You, with PO5's sexy Jennifer Love Hewitt; Without Limits, the other Steve Prefontaine story; and an independent film, Dish Dogs.
And this spring, he heads to Cannes--hopefully, to repeat the Sundance feat--with SLC Punk ("unequivocally the best film I've ever been a part of in my life"), in which he plays an '80s slacker-savant who must choose between street life and Harvard Law.
Meantime, he's winging off to Europe to shoot Wing Commander (based on the hit CD-ROM) with I Know What You Did Last Summer's Freddie Prinze Jr. And finally, he's exec-producing and starring in Cannibals, with the Dead Man's Curve team.
Whew!
And what's this about Lillard and Scream costar Neve Campbell's itemhood?
"We're good friends--we spend a lot of time together," he says with a big smile and small wink. "You can ask anything else, and you know what: The answer will probably be the same."
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