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Amy Smart and Ryan Kwanten Book Flight ‘7500’
Bloody Disgusting received exclusive word that Amy Smart (pictured inside) and Ryan Kwanten (above) are both in talks to land lead roles in CBS Films’ 7500 (formerly Flight 7500), the claustrophobic thriller to be directed by Takashi Shimizu (The Grudge, Marebito).
The project’s based on a pitch from Shimizu and “is set on a transpacific airliner from Los Angeles to Tokyo where the passengers encounter what seems to be a supernatural force.”
Smart would play a passenger flight attendant “Laura Baxter” if cast. She has starred in genre films such as The Butterfly Effect, Seventh Moon and Mirrors. Kwanten is coming off “True Blood” and also Joe Lynch’s The Knights of Badassdom. He also toplined Saw director James Wan’s Dead Silence.
Taka Ichise (The Grudge, Shutter) and Roy Lee (The Ring, The Departed, Pacific Rim) produce. 
What happened to Flight 298? Our exclusive clip from supernatural thriller Black Box suggests a hostile takeover by an inhuman threat.
Black Box arrives on VOD today, July 7, 2026, via distributor Aura Entertainment.
In the horror movie, “A routine domestic flight turns into the flight from hell through a series of inexplicable phenomena and raw terror. Surreal encounters blur the boundaries between reality and nightmare. Passengers fight against all the odds in an attempt to survive while combating bizarre technological malfunctions, accelerating supernatural events, and alien influences.”
The film is based on the short film The Vessel, and an original screenplay from horror writer Stephen Susco (The Grudge, The Grudge 2, Texas Chainsaw 3D, Hell Fest).
Steven Quale (Into the Storm, Final Destination 5) directs.
Tom Brittney, Holly Leena White, Betsy Blue English, Dane Whyte O’Hara, Kaja Chan, Asa Ali, Boadicea Ricketts, Ceallach Spellman, Georgina Leonidas, Molly Belle Wright, Hanneke Talbot, Danny Mack, and Weronika Rosati star in Black Box.
Hammerstone Studios’ Alex Lebovici (Barbarian, Boy Kills World) and Jon Oakes (Drive, The Guilty) will produce alongside Capstone’s Christian Mercuri and David Haring (Bill & Ted Face the Music), Warren Zide (The Final Destination, American Pie), and Susco. Ruzanna Kegeyan and Roman Viaris of Capstone, and Clark Baker (Vessel) will executive produce.
Watch the clip below that sees a creepy crawling invasion aboard Flight 298, signalling supernatural turbulence ahead.