Garret Dillahunt, Elizabeth Mitchell, Shawn Ashmore & Jessy Schram To Star In Psychological Thriller ‘The Huntsman’
30.04.2024 - 20:25
/ deadline.com
EXCLUSIVE: Garret Dillahunt (Where the Crawdads Sing), Elizabeth Mitchell (The Purge: Election Year), 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 production in Oklahoma next month.
An adaptation of Judith Sanders’s novel scripted by Steven Jon Whritner, the film centers on a repressed ICU nurse (Ashmore) volunteering as a reader for a recovering coma patient (Dillahunt), the prime suspect in the savage murders of six young women in a small southwestern town. The suspect’s wife (Mitchell), refusing to believe that her husband is the killer, struggles with the mounting complexities of the investigation. With a dedicated detective (Schram) trying to solve the mystery before more bodies turn up, numerous other suspects take the case on a spiraling journey.
Pic is fully financed by Frank Malinoski and produced by Plymouth Rock Entertainment’s Whritner (Jury Duty, Repo Men: Stealing for a Living) and SafeHouse Films’ Jacob Ryan Snovel (Agnes, upcoming Reverence), alongside Nicholas Clement (Out of Exile, upcoming Reverence) and Maddison Bullock (Ice: The Movie, upcoming Anywhere). The film is executive produced by Dillahunt, Sanders, and Malinoski.
Mark Rutman (Snowfall, Nashville) handled casting, with Jesse M. Bookout of Franklin, Weinrib, Rudell serving as production counsel.
“I’m excited to start shooting this dark and atmospheric story,” Harris said. “We live in a world where outward appearances are oftentimes deceiving, and one of the many intriguing aspects about this project was how the script addresses inner and outer identity, and the reasons why someone would be