Final October, we heard that Rachel McAdams was in talks to reteam with Physician Unusual within the Multiverse of Insanity director Sam Raimi on the twentieth Century Studios horror thriller Ship Assist, which Raimi could be producing and directing. McAdams was shortly joined within the forged by Dylan O’Brien (The Maze Runner), Chris Pang (Inside Chinatown), and Dennis Haysbert (24). Filming started in early February, placing the movie on observe for a January thirtieth, 2026 theatrical launch – and now, the primary photographs have dropped on-line! You may examine them out on the backside of this text, courtesy of Entertainment Weekly. UPDATE: We now have a trailer as properly, as you possibly can see within the embed above!
In 2007, it was rumored that Sam Raimi could be producing a fantasy movie with a screenplay written by Freddy vs. Jason and Friday the thirteenth 2009 writers Damian Shannon and Mark Swift. That didn’t pan out, however a decade later Raimi thought-about directing a Bermuda Triangle undertaking that when had Shannon and Swift engaged on the script. Once more, that didn’t pan out, with Scott Derrickson and extra just lately Marc Webb selecting up the undertaking after Raimi dropped it. In 2019, it was introduced that Raimi could be directing an untitled island horror thriller, working from a script by Shannon and Swift. Then the pandemic hit and Raimi went on to direct Physician Unusual within the Multiverse of Insanity… however now he has circled again to the island horror thriller, and A Quiet Place writers Scott Beck and Bryan Woods have executed a rewrite of the script. They beforehand labored with Raimi on the Adam Driver dinosaur film 65 and the anthology sequence 50 States of Fright. Additionally they wrote and govt produced the Stephen King adaptation The Boogeyman for twentieth Century Studios.
Raimi is producing Ship Assist alongside Zainab Azizi, the President of his firm Raimi Productions.
When Ship Assist was first introduced, it was mentioned to be like “Misery meets Cast Away” in tone. That’s nonetheless the outline being given, as Deadline talked about, “the film is described as a two-hander horror thriller set on an island, falling somewhere between Rob Reiner’s Stephen King adaptation Misery and Robert Zemeckis’ classic Castaway.” They report that the movie is a survival horror thriller about two colleagues who develop into stranded on a abandoned island, the one survivors of a aircraft crash. On the island, they have to overcome previous grievances and work collectively to outlive, however finally, it’s a battle of wills and wits to make it out alive.
Movie scooper Daniel Richtman just lately revealed that Ship Assist has the next logline: Comedy-adventure horror a few feminine put-upon worker and her jerk boss. On a enterprise flight along with their firm, the aircraft crashes on an island and solely these two make it. She has severe survival abilities which implies she’s his solely hope. Richtman additionally shared character particulars: LINDA: Smartest individual within the room, however nobody takes her critically. Actor can’t be overly comedic, must be plausible in severe workplace setting. Eyed Sandra Bullock. BRADLEY: LINDA’S misogynistic boss.
Raimi informed Entertainment Weekly he was drawn to this undertaking as a result of “I discovered the 2 lead characters, Linda and Bradley, to be advanced, human, and continuously at odds with one another in typically conflicting conditions. The pitch was outrageous and authentic, all of the whereas monitoring these two of their battle as their energy dynamic modified dramatically. I knew immediately that I wished to direct this image. … What I actually love about this story is that it’s an underdog story at its core. Not solely is it about survival on a abandoned island, nevertheless it’s additionally a narrative of feminine empowerment and transformation. Watching a once-powerful boss discover himself depending on somebody he underestimated is satisfying. Our story is common! We have to encourage our society to deal with folks with respect and kindness, no matter standing. It’s particularly rewarding to see our heroine, Linda, come into her personal in such an sudden atmosphere.“
I’m there to see something Sam Raimi makes, so I’m wanting ahead to testing Ship Assist. Are you curious about this film? Check out the pictures, then tell us by leaving a remark beneath.
