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 girls in a small southwestern city. The suspect’s spouse (Mitchell), refusing to consider 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 absolutely financed by Frank Malinoski and produced by Plymouth Rock Leisure’s Whritner (Jury Obligation, 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 Anyplace). 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 start out taking pictures this darkish and atmospheric story,” Harris stated. “We reside in a world the place outward appearances are oftentimes deceiving, and one of many many intriguing features about this mission was how the script addresses internal and outer id, and the the explanation why somebody can be pushed to kill, I’m drawn to materials that takes the viewers to the narrative edge, and with The Huntsman, now we have a movie that can shake the viewer up.”
“From Sanders’ gripping novel comes a tremendous script by Whritner, which, within the fingers of our visionary director and a brilliantly proficient solid, will come a movie that ought to interact, shock and thrill the minds and hearts of grownup audiences,” added EP Malinoski.
Subsequent to be seen starring in Viggo Mortensen’s Western The Useless Don’t Damage, Dillahunt’s different current movie credit embody Crimson 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 collection 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 present starring on ABC’s beloved procedural The Rookie, Ashmore’s different upcoming initiatives embody 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.
Recognized for his Heartland Emmy-winning 2017 documentary I Stand: The Guardians of the Water, which spotlighted the Standing Rock Sioux Nation’s combat towards the Dakota Entry Pipeline, Harris made his theatrical debut with the 2022 crime thriller Out of Exile, distributed by Saban Movies and Paramount Footage.
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.