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EXCLUSIVE: Principal photography connected Ian McDonald’s Sundowning, nan latest accumulation from horror-focused banner Spooky Pictures, is underway successful Vancouver and Deadline tin uncover nan cast.
Elizabeth Dulau (Andor), Susanne Wuest (Industry) Rukiya Bernard (Yellowjackets) and Robbie G.K. (Heated Rivalry) person signed up to prima successful nan psychological thriller.
It nan 2nd characteristic successful nan director’s spot for McDonald, who antecedently took penning credits connected Anna Kendrick’s serial slayer play Woman of nan Hour and directed nan unconventional 2016 teen romance Some Freaks.
His caller movie follows a young musician pinch gerontophobia, whose irrational fearfulness of ageing and decease sees her neglect her dying parents. She seeks redemption by taking a position astatine a secluded extremity of life facility, but what originates arsenic an enactment of penance soon unsettles her arsenic she discovers nan idyllic sanctuary hides a terrifying secret.
Sundowning is nan latest accumulation to travel down nan pipeline from Spooky Pictures and Abu Dhabi-based workplace Image Nation’s multi-year partnership.
Steven Schneider (The Long Walk), Roy Lee (Barbarian)and Simmy Wolf (Thunderbolts) nutrient for Spooky Pictures. Producing for Hadron Films (Breeder, Still/Born, Z) is Chris Wilkinson and Ryan Marchant, pinch Ellie Cameron-Smith arsenic Line Producer. Spooky Pictures’ Rami Yasin (Hokum) and Image Nation’s Ben Ross (Watcher, Late Night pinch nan Devil) service arsenic Executive Producers.
“Ian brings a singular way grounds successful crafting characteristic driven thrillers which tackle societal and organization structures successful a haunting yet insightful way,” said said Spooky Pictures co-founder Schneider.
“We can’t hold to spot his latest creation Sundowning realized and to person specified a stellar cast, including Elizabeth, Susanne, Rukiya and Robbie, bring this chilling communicative of redemption and nan darker realities of nan attraction strategy to life for world audiences.”
Image Nation’s CEO Ben Ross added: “As we proceed deepening our slate of boundary-pushing, elevated projects, Sundowning is precisely nan type of bold and globally resonant storytelling we’re drawn to. It offers a caller return connected an emotionally driven horror, done its sinister crippled that is cautiously layered pinch explorations of guilt, mortality and nonaccomplishment – each brought to life by Ian’s crisp imaginative voice.”
Woman of nan Hour, which was financed by AGC Studios pinch Vertigo Entertainment and Boulderlight Films producing, premiered astatine nan 2023 Toronto International Film Festival and sold to Netflix successful a bidding war. McDonald Ian is now besides penning an Untitled Cult Thriller for Netflix and producers Andrea Berloff and John Gatins.
Dulau is champion known for her starring domiciled arsenic Kleya successful Tony Gilroy’s Emmy nominated show Andor for Disney+. Her different surface credits see Steven Knight’s House of Guinness on Netflix; All nan Light We Cannot See for head Shawn Levy and Netflix, and Universal Pictures’ movie type of nan deed philharmonic Wicked, directed by Jon M. Chu.
Wuest gained world nickname pinch Antares, Austria’s Academy Awards submission. She is champion known for nan critically acclaimed cult movie Goodnight Mommy, which was besides an Academy Awards introduction from Austria. Most recently, she starred successful nan Cannes winning The Sound of Falling (Mubi) and HBO’s Industry. She tin adjacent beryllium seen successful Lionsgate’s Orphan 3.
Bernard is champion known for her 3 seasons connected Showtime’s Yellowjackets and Fox’s Chicken Sisters. She will adjacent beryllium seen successful nan deed AMC bid The Audacity.
Robbie G.K. arrives connected nan accumulation caller from deed show Heated Rivalry, pinch erstwhile credits besides including Utopia Falls.
McDonald is represented by CAA and Entertainment 360; Dulau, by Anonymous Content, The Artists Partnership and Jackoway Austen Tyerman Wertheimer Mandelbaum Morris Bernstein Trattner Auerbach Hynick Jaime LeVine Sample & Klein; Susanne Wuest, by The Artists Partnership, Henneman and Thruline Ent; Bernard, by D2Management and RED Management; and Robbie G.K. by Amplified Mgmt and The Talent House.
