Dennis Haysbert has signed on to hitch Rachel McAdams, Dylan O’Brien, and Chris Pang within the Sam Raimi thriller Ship Assist
Again in 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 might be producing and directing. Since then, McAdams has been joined within the solid by Dylan O’Brien (The Maze Runner) and Chris Pang (Inside Chinatown). Now, Deadline experiences that Dennis Haysbert (24) has additionally landed a job within the movie – however particulars on the character he’ll be enjoying haven’t been revealed.
Again in 2007, it was rumored that Sam Raimi can 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 challenge that after had Shannon and Swift engaged on the script. Once more, that didn’t pan out, with Scott Derrickson and extra not too long ago Marc Webb selecting up the challenge after Raimi dropped it. In 2019, it was introduced that Raimi can 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 accomplished a rewrite of the script. They beforehand labored with Raimi on the Adam Driver dinosaur film 65 and the anthology collection 50 States of Fright. In addition 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 turn 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 in the end, it’s a battle of wills and wits to make it out alive.
Movie scooper Daniel Richtman not too long ago 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 suggests she’s his solely hope. Richtman additionally shared character particulars: LINDA: Smartest individual within the room, however nobody takes her severely. Actor can’t be overly comedic, needs to be plausible in severe workplace setting. Eyed Sandra Bullock. BRADLEY: LINDA’S misogynistic boss.
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