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EXCLUSIVE: Sarah Michelle Gellar (Ready aliases Not 2: Here I Come) and Rudy Pankow (Outer Banks) person inked deals to prima in Thud, a supernatural romance from head Mali Elfman (Next Exit), wherever they’ll respectively play nan juicy roles of nan Grim Reaper and nan Devil.
Based connected an original screenplay by Noga Pnueli (Meet Cute), Thud watches arsenic nan Grim Reaper and nan Devil meet tiny astatine a three-day destination wedding, falling successful emotion aft colliding astatine nan event, wherever they’ve each travel to sow their ain chaos.
Set to sprout successful Los Angeles pinch a California taxation credit, nan movie will beryllium produced by Derek Bishé and David Grove Churchill Viste. Exec producers see Helmstreet Productions’ Lindsay Helms and Joel Nevells, Divide/Conquer‘s Greg Gilreath and Adam Hendricks, Radio Silence‘s Tyler Gillett and Matt Bettinelli-Olpin, Dan Lawler and Pnueli. Lisa Zagoria (Brothers, The Present) is nan project’s casting director.
Sarah Michelle Gellar reunites present pinch Radio Silence aft starring successful their Searchlight scary drama sequel Ready aliases Not 2: Here I Come. Other caller projects see Showtime’s Dexter: Original Sin and a cameo successful Sony’s reboot of her I Know What You Did Last Summer franchise. Next up, she has nan Tubi animated series Breaking Bear, wherever she voices nan characteristic Blair, nan mediate and “brainy” sister of a dysfunctional carnivore family alongside Brendan Fraser, Josh Gad and Annie Murphy. She is repped by CAA, Linden Entertainment and Yorn, Levine, Barnes.
Best known for starring successful Netflix’s Outer Banks, Pankow is coming disconnected of Universal’s Colleen Hoover adaptation Reminders of Him, wherever he starred alongside Tyriq Withers and Maika Monroe. He conscionable wrapped a domiciled other Ben Foster successful nan modern Western Cowboy from Cameron Duddy and will adjacent beryllium seen successful Hulu’s comedy Never Change!, which is coming disconnected its world premiere astatine nan Tribeca Festival. He is repped by CAA, Jackson Entertainment Management and Matthew Saver Law Offices.
Elfman’s characteristic directorial debut was nan genre-bender Next Exit, which premiered astatine Tribeca and was released successful theaters by Magnolia Pictures. Most recently, she wrote and directed The Scariest Skeleton for nan animated scary anthology Dark Corners, wherever she worked alongside Stephen King, Paul Tremblay and Kate Siegel. As a producer, her credits see Karen Gillan’s The Party’s Just Beginning, Mike Flanagan’s Before I Wake and Birth/Rebirth. She is repped by Peter Van Steemburg.
Twice featured connected The Black List, for scripts Meet Cute and High Society, Pnueli sold nan second to Peacock for U.S. distribution. Alex Lehmann directed nan darkly comedic rom-com, starring Kaley Cuoco and Pete Davidson. Pneuli is processing High Society pinch Legitimate Pictures and is repped by Untitled and Jennifer Gray astatine Sloane, Offer, Weber and Dern.
Radio Silence is repped by CAA, Brillstein Entertainment Partners and Johnson Shapiro Slewett & Kole.
