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EXCLUSIVE: Netflix has acquired Play Dead, nan WWII thriller from Carry-On‘s Jaume Collet-Serra, which we scooped past February.
A woody fig wasn’t disclosed. Starring Noah Jupe (Hamnet) and Matthias Schweighöfer (Oppenheimer), Play Dead follows a shell-shocked worker who, aft seeing a deadly ambush swipe retired his portion successful nan last days of World War II, must past nan nighttime by pretending to beryllium dormant while surrounded by an force battalion of Nazi soldiers.
The task has antecedently been billed arsenic Don’t Breathe meets 1917.
Collet-Serra directed from a book by Natalie Conway and Peter Stanley-Ward, pinch Sam Raimi and Rob Tapert producing for Ghost House Pictures, alongside J.D. Lifshitz and Raphael Margules for BoulderLight, Dane Eckerle for Bad Grey, and Akiva Nemetsky and Keaton Heinrichs for Nocturnal, which afloat financed nan task arsenic its first feature.
Exec producers are Collet-Serra, Scott Greenberg, Chris M. Bonifay, Jose Cañas, Romel Adam, Chris Musselwhite, Louis Winters, and Michele Chan Soon-Shiong. WME Independent handled income for nan film.
Under a multi-year imaginative business pinch Netflix, Collet-Serra astir precocious group up high-concept bull action thriller spec The Cage astatine nan streamer pinch plans to direct. He came to nan woody connected nan backmost of nan occurrence of his thriller Carry-On, starring Taron Egerton and Jason Bateman, which remains Netflix’s third-most-popular movie of each time. His first task retired of nan woody is nan seductive thriller An Innocent Girl, starring and executive produced by Kerry Washington, which besides stars alongside James Marsden, Chloe East, and Colman Domingo.
