EXCLUSIVE: Severance star Britt Decrease will star alongside David Dastmalchian (Late Evening with the Satan), Anna Baryshnikov (Love Lies Bleeding), and Jamie Lee Curtis (The Final Showgirl) in Sender, a brand new psychological horror movie produced by the latter.
Marking the directorial debut of Russell Goldman, the movie relies on Return to Sender, his award-winning 2022 brief, which he later tailored right into a 2023 Black Listing script. It’s at the moment in manufacturing and follows a lady (Decrease) who experiences an e-commerce package deal supply rip-off that turns into so private and disturbing that she turns into hellbent on discovering the identification of her nameless sender.
Curtis is producing for Comet Photos, alongside Molly Hallam and Jake Katofsky. Akshay Shah, Decrease, and Goldman are exec producers on the undertaking, with Thomas Grabinski, Eric Baird, Cesar Vega, and Mireia Villanova serving as co-producers. Verve Ventures represents the movie for North American gross sales.
In a press release to Deadline, Curtis stated, “I’m so proud to be part of Russell’s first film, the primary of many. The little seed that Comet Photos planted has now grown right into a characteristic full of proficient artists surrounding a brand new and thrilling filmmaker.”
Decrease has drawn rave opinions for her twin roles reverse Adam Scott in Apple’s hit sequence Severance, a water cooler phenomenon that’s simply wrapped up its second season and has been picked up for a 3rd. Just lately, she’s additionally led indies Darkest Miriam and Psycho Remedy, each of which premiered eventually yr’s Tribeca Competition forward of an unveiling in theaters. Subsequent, she’s set to guide Netflix’s not too long ago introduced restricted sequence I Will Discover You based mostly on Harlan Coben’s bestselling novel. She is repped by UTA, Ames/Hashagen Leisure, and Jackoway Austen Tyerman.
Along with supernatural horror hit Late Evening with the Satan, Dastmalchian has not too long ago appeared in Oppenheimer, The Boogeyman, and Dune: Half One. He’ll subsequent be seen starring in Apple TV+’s Murderbot, Dexter: Resurrection, and Mike Flanagan’s The Lifetime of Chuck. He’s repped by Atlas Artists and Hansen, Jacobson, Teller.
Greatest identified for roles in A24’s Love Lies Bleeding and the Apple TV+ sequence Dickinson, Baryshnikov most not too long ago govt produced and starred in Nastasya Popov’s movie Idiotka, which simply premiered at SXSW. She is repped by CAA, Brookside Artist Administration, and Yorn, Levine, Barnes.
Most not too long ago seen starring reverse Pamela Anderson in The Final Showgirl, in a supporting function that landed her SAG and BAFTA Award nominations, Curtis’ upcoming slate additionally contains Freakier Friday reverse Lindsay Lohan, James L. Brooks’ comedy Ella McCay, and Amazon’s Kay Scarpetta reverse Nicole Kidman. She is repped by CAA and Jackoway Austen Tyerman.
Goldman has historical past with Curtis, because the pair beforehand teamed to pen the graphic novel Mom Nature for Titan Comics. His brief movie work together with Burn Out and Closing Time has performed at over 100 movie festivals world wide. He’s repped by Verve and Myman Greenspan Fox.
