AKIPRESS.COM - Two young stars have been selected to play the Boston Marathon bombers in Mark Wahlberg's controversial movie about the terror attacks.

Alex Wolff will play Dzhokhar Tsarnaev with newcomer Themo Melikidze as his brother, Tamerlan Tsarnaev, in the movie called Patriots Day, according to The Wrap.

Alex, 18, is best known for HBO's In Treatment and Nickelodeon's The Naked Brothers Band TV series and movie. He also appears in My Big Fat Greek Wedding 2.

The casting has come late in the process as filming has already started in Boston on the film directed by Peter Berg, and produced by and starring Wahlberg.

 The CBS Films and Lionsgate production will center on the terrible events of April 20, 2013, when the terrorist brothers detonated two bombs during the Boston Marathon, killing three people and injuring 264 others.

Last May, Dzhokhar, now 22 and a former University of Massachusetts Dartmouth student, was sentenced to death by lethal injection. He is currently at a federal prison in Florence, Colorado.