EXCLUSIVE: Garret Dillahunt (The place the Crawdads Sing), Elizabeth Mitchell (The Purge: Election 12 months), Shawn Ashmore (ABC’s The Rookie) and Jessy Schram (Unstoppable) have been tapped to star in The Hunstman, a psychological thriller from director Kyle Kauwika Harris (Out of Exile) that’s going into manufacturing in Oklahoma subsequent month.
An adaptation of Judith Sanders’s novel scripted by Steven Jon Whritner, the movie facilities on a repressed ICU nurse (Ashmore) volunteering as a reader for a recovering coma affected person (Dillahunt), the prime suspect within the savage murders of six younger ladies in a small southwestern city. The suspect’s spouse (Mitchell), refusing to imagine that her husband is the killer, struggles with the mounting complexities of the investigation. With a devoted detective (Schram) making an attempt to unravel the thriller earlier than extra our bodies flip up, quite a few different suspects take the case on a spiraling journey.
Pic is totally financed by Frank Malinoski and produced by Plymouth Rock Leisure’s Whritner (Jury Responsibility, Repo Males: Stealing for a Residing) and SafeHouse Movies’ Jacob Ryan Snovel (Agnes, upcoming Reverence), alongside Nicholas Clement (Out of Exile, upcoming Reverence) and Maddison Bullock (Ice: The Film, upcoming Wherever). The movie is govt produced by Dillahunt, Sanders, and Malinoski.
Mark Rutman (Snowfall, Nashville) dealt with casting, with Jesse M. Bookout of Franklin, Weinrib, Rudell serving as manufacturing counsel.
“I’m excited to begin capturing this darkish and atmospheric story,” Harris mentioned. “We stay in a world the place outward appearances are oftentimes deceiving, and one of many many intriguing facets about this challenge was how the script addresses interior and outer identification, and the the reason why somebody could be pushed to kill, I’m drawn to materials that takes the viewers to the narrative edge, and with The Huntsman, we’ve a movie that may shake the viewer up.”
“From Sanders’ gripping novel comes an incredible script by Whritner, which, within the fingers of our visionary director and a brilliantly gifted forged, will come a movie that ought to have interaction, shock and thrill the minds and hearts of grownup audiences,” added EP Malinoski.
Subsequent to be seen starring in Viggo Mortensen’s Western The Dead Don’t Hurt, Dillahunt’s different latest movie credit embrace Purple Proper Hand and The place the Crawdads Sing. Lately, he’s additionally been seen on reveals like Hightown, Useless to Me, and Sprung.
Beforehand, Mitchell has appeared in sequence like The Santa Clauses, Outer Banks, The Expanse, As soon as Upon a Time and Misplaced, along with movies like The Purge: Election 12 months.
At the moment starring on ABC’s beloved procedural The Rookie, Ashmore’s different upcoming tasks embrace the indies Simply Breathe and It Feeds.
Schram stars on Chicago Med and has additionally been seen on reveals like Nashville and Falling Skies. Moreover, she’s appeared in such movies as Shot Caller and Unstoppable.
Identified for his Heartland Emmy-winning 2017 documentary I Stand: The Guardians of the Water, which spotlighted the Standing Rock Sioux Nation’s struggle in opposition to the Dakota Entry Pipeline, Harris made his theatrical debut with the 2022 crime thriller Out of Exile, distributed by Saban Movies and Paramount Photos.
Harris is repped by Impartial Artist Group and Mosaic; Dillahunt by IAG and D2 Administration; Mitchell by IAG, Hyperlink Leisure, and Hirsch Wallerstein Hayum; Ashmore by Gersh, Artistry Administration, and Jackoway Austen Tyerman; and Schram by Trade Leisure and Jackoway Austen.
