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James Finley Ransone III (June 2, 1979 – December 19, 2025) was an American actor and musician. He was best known for his roles as Ziggy Sobotka in the second season of the drama series The Wire, United States Marine Corps Cpl. Josh Ray Person in the war drama miniseries Generation Kill (2008), The Deputy in the supernatural horror films Sinister (2012) and Sinister 2 (2015), Chester in Tangerine (2015), the adult Eddie Kaspbrak in It Chapter Two (2019), and Max in The Black Phone movies. Description above from the Wikipedia article James Ransone, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.
When investigative journalist Miles Upshur breaks into the abandoned and notoriously corrupt Mount Massive Asylum, he expects to uncover a corporate cover-up. Instead, he discovers a nightmare. Inside, the patients have overrun the facility. A religious fanatic believes Miles is a chosen prophet. A sadistic surgeon wants him on the table. Something supernatural hunts through the halls. Security forces have been slaughtered. And deep beneath the asylum, a deadly experiment known as The Morphogenic Engine has unleashed a sentient nanite entity called The Walrider. As Miles fights to survive, he encounters another reporter — Blake Langermann, who snuck into the asylum searching for evidence against the Murkoff Corporation. When the two journalists cross paths in the chaos, they uncover the horrifying truth: Mount Massive isn’t a hospital. It’s a testing ground. Their cameras become their only weapons. Their footage becomes the only truth. Their choices decide who escapes — and who becomes part of the experiment. And in the end, the asylum won’t let them leave unchanged.
