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‘V/H/S’ and ‘You’re Next’ Duo Reteam For Psycho Marine Thriller ‘The Guest’
Up-and-coming actress Maika Monroe, pictured above, has booked the female lead opposite Dan Stevens, below, in The Guest, a psychological thriller from the filmmaking team behind A Horrible Way To Die, V/H/S, V/H/S/2 and Lionsgate’s upcoming horror movie You’re Next, reports TheWrap.
Adam Wingard will direct from a script by Simon Barrett, while Keith Calder and Jessica Wu will produce via Snoot Entertainment.
Stevens (“Downton Abbey”) stars as David, an ex-Marine who returns from a tour of duty a changed man and terrorizes a military family whose eldest son recently died.
Monroe will play Anna, the female lead who is suspicious of David and must protect her younger brother from his cold-blooded wrath.
Production starts this summer.
You’re Next premiered at the 2011 Toronto International Film Festival and hits U.S. theaters on Aug. 23 via Lionsgate. V/H/S/2 is now available on VOD platforms.
Christopher Landon (Happy Death Day, Freaky) is staying busy here in 2024, directing not only the werewolf movie Big Bad but also an upcoming thriller titled Drop.
The project for Blumhouse and Platinum Dunes is being described as a “fast-paced thriller,” and Deadline reports today that Violett Beane (Truth or Dare) has joined the cast.
Newcomer Jacob Robinson has also signed on to star in the mysterious thriller. Previously announced, Meghann Fahy (“White Lotus”) will be leading the cast.
Landon recently teased on Twitter, “This is my love letter to DePalma.”
Jillian Jacobs and Chris Roach wrote the script.
Michael Bay, Jason Blum, Brad Fuller and Cameron Fuller — “who brought the script in to Platinum Dunes” — are producing the upcoming Drop. Sam Lerner is an executive producer.
THR notes, “The film is a Platinum Dunes and Blumhouse production for Universal.”
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