Nina Dobrev Joins Cast Of “Deathgames" Nina Dobrev, star of CW’s “The Vampire Diaries,” has joined the cast of “Deathgames," indie action movie starring Kellan Lutz and Samuel L. Jackson. James Remar, who plays Dexter's father on Showtime's "Dexter,” and Derek Mears, who inhabited Jason Vorhees in the recent ”Friday the 13th,” also have been cast in the movie, which is shooting in Louisiana. The story centers on a young man (Lutz) who is kidnapped and forced into the savage world of a modern gladiator arena, where men fight to the death for entertainment of the online masses in games orchestrated by Jackson. Dobrev is playing Lutz’s wife. Remar is playing a mysterious character named Tall Man, while Mears is a fighter named Brutus Jackson. (As previously reported, Daniel Dae Kim of “Lost” is also in the movie.) Jonah Loop, a visual effects supervisor on such pics as "Collateral" and "A Perfect Getaway," is making his directoria