A red-headed Jamie Lee Curtis is deep in thought in the first image of the horror icon in Sender, courtesy of THR.
The paranoid thriller will have its world premiere at SXSW in Texas this weekend.
Russell Goldman makes his directorial debut on the project based on his 2022 short Return to Sender, which he adapted into a 2023 Black List script.
Britt Lower (“Severance”) stars as Julia, who was fired three weeks ago. She also got sober three weeks ago. She’s starting over in a suburban rental, and doing a lot of online shopping to help make the space her own, fast.
When packages she didn’t order start showing up at her door — a blender, a corkscrew, her signature shade of lipstick — they feel so unnervingly tied to her past that it starts to feel like someone is watching her.
The shopping site Smirk denies responsibility. Increasingly paranoid, Julia tumbles down a rabbit hole to find the identity of her anonymous sender.
Rhea Seehorn (“Pluribus”), Anna Baryshnikov (Love Lies Bleeding), David Dastmalchian (Late Night with the Devil), Utkarsh Ambudkar (“Ghosts”), Mike Mitchell (“Twisted Metal”), Edward Torres (Return to Sender), Alyssa Limperis (“What We Do in the Shadow”), and Inger Stratton round out the cast.
Curtis produces alongside Molly Hallam and Jake Katofsky. Executive producers include Goldman, Lower, Akshay Shah, Thomas Grabinski, Paris Jones, and Andre Ray.
“[Curtis] built the infrastructure for me and Britt and the whole Sender team to find what moved us,” Goldman tells THR. “She would be candid about how it landed with her, pushing for better.”
