Noah Jupe to Star in Jaume Collet-Serra's Survival Thriller PLAY DEAD From Producer Sam Raimi
British actor Noah Jupe (A Quiet Place, Honey Boy) is set to star in Play Dead, the new survival thriller from Carry-On‘s Jaume Collet-Serra that was revealed back in February. No details have yet emerged about Jupe’s character or the film’s plot, though it’s been described by sources close to Deadline as Don’t Breathe meets 1917.
Production begins in Melbourne, Australia in May. The project is one of two recently announced for Collet-Serra, who earlier this month was linked to An Innocent Girl, a psychological thriller to be produced for Netflix by Greg Berlanti and Sarah Schechter.
Peter Stanley-Ward and Natalie Conway penned the script for Play Dead, which Nocturnal will fully finance and produce alongside Ghost House Pictures, BoulderLight Pictures, and Bad Grey. Akiva Nemetsky and Keaton Heinrichs are producing for Nocturnal, along with Sam Raimi and Rob Tapert for Ghost House, JD Lifshitz and Raphael Margules for BoulderLight, and Dane Eckerle for Bad Grey.
Romel Adam and Jose Cañas are overseeing for Ghost House, with Tracy Rosenblum overseeing for BoulderLight. Scott Greenberg of LBI will exec produce, with Jazmyn Tanski overseeing.
Jupe has recently been seen on two starry Apple series — Franklin, opposite Michael Douglas, and Lady in the Lake, opposite Natalie Portman. Most recently wrapping Michael Sarnoski’s The Death of Robin Hood, where he’ll star alongside Hugh Jackman, Jodie Comer and Bill Skarsgård, the actor’s upcoming slate also includes & Sons alongside Bill Nighy, horror pic The Carpenter’s Son opposite Nicolas Cage, and the role of Hamlet in Chloé Zhao’s Hamnet.