EXCLUSIVE: Matthias Schweighöfer (Military of Thieves) has landed a lead function reverse Noah Jupe in Play Useless, the brand new survival thriller from Carry-On‘s Jaume Collet-Serra described as Don’t Breathe meets 1917.
Additional plot particulars stay underneath wraps, as do the roles of the duo. Manufacturing has simply kicked off in Australia.
Peter Stanley-Ward & Natalie Conway penned the script for Play Useless, which Nocturnal will totally finance and produce alongside Ghost Home Footage, BoulderLight Footage, and Dangerous Gray. Akiva Nemetsky and Keaton Heinrichs are producing for Nocturnal, together with Sam Raimi and Rob Tapert for Ghost Home, JD Lifshitz and Raphael Margules for BoulderLight, and Dane Eckerle for Dangerous Gray. Romel Adam and Jose Cañas are overseeing for Ghost Home, with Louis Winters overseeing for BoulderLight. Scott Greenberg of LBI is exec producing, with Jazmyn Tanski overseeing.
German actor Schweighöfer is probably finest identified for guiding, producing and starring in Netflix’s Military of Thieves, the prequel to Zack Snyder’s Military of the Useless, the place he additionally starred. Upcoming, he’ll be seen starring within the thriller thriller Brick for Netflix, which will probably be launched on July 10, in addition to the thriller sequence Vanished from Amazon reverse Kaley Cuoco. Moreover, he lends his voice to Pixar’s Elio, which releases on June 20.
Different latest initiatives for Schweighöfer embrace Christopher Nolan’s Oppenheimer, Milli Vanilli biopic Lady You Know It’s True, Netflix’s Household Change reverse Jennifer Garner, Coronary heart of Stone reverse Gal Gadot and Jamie Dornan — additionally for Netflix — and The Swimmers for director Sally El Hosaini. The actor is repped by UTA and Untitled Leisure.
