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EXCLUSIVE: After scoring massive viewership with Carry-On, his Netflix action-thriller starring Taron Egerton and Jason Bateman, director Jaume Collet-Serra has found his next project in Play Dead, a survival thriller described as Don’t Breathe meets 1917, sources tell Deadline.
Specifics as to the film’s plot are under wraps. Script is by Peter Stanley-Ward & Natalie Conway. Nocturnal is fully financing the project and producing alongside Ghost House Pictures, BoulderLight Pictures, and Bad Grey, with production to kick off at NantStudios in Docklands Studios Melbourne in May.
Akiva Nemetsky and Keaton Heinrichs will produce for Nocturnal, alongside Sam Raimi and Rob Tapert for Ghost House, JD Lifshitz and Raphael Margules for BoulderLight, and Dane Eckerle for Bad Grey. Romel Adam and Jose Cañas will oversee for Ghost House, with Tracy Rosenblum overseeing for BoulderLight. Scott Greenberg of LBI will exec produce, with Jazmyn Tanski overseeing.
Since premiering on Netflix on December 13, Collet-Serra’s holiday-themed TSA officer action thriller Carry-On has generated 164.8 million views, establishing itself not only as Netflix’s most watched movie of 2024, but also as the streamer’s third most popular film of all time. Boasting a strong track record directing high-concept thrillers, having also helmed titles like The Shallows and Non-Stop, he broke out with his work on horror films House of Wax and Orphan before going on to a string of collaborations with Liam Neeson on Non-Stop, as well as the films Unknown, Run All Night, and The Commuter.
Known to many for his work on the tentpoles Black Adam and Jungle Cruise, Collet-Serra is back in theaters this spring with The Woman in the Yard, a horror thriller starring Danielle Deadwyler, which Universal releases on March 28. Also recently wrapping on a reimagining of classic actioner Cliffhanger, starring Lily James and Pierce Brosnan, the Spanish filmmaker is represented by LBI Entertainment and Yorn, Levine, Barnes. Co-writer Ward is repped by Kaplan/Perrone Entertainment and UTA.
