Casting is currently underway for Don’t Move, the new horror thriller from directing duo Adam Schindler and Brian Netto. The film reteams Schindler with, T.J. Cimfel and David White who wrote Schindler’s 2016 pic, Intruders, starring Rory Culkin.
The new movie follows a grieving woman who must run, fight, and hide before her body completely shuts down, after being injected with a paralytic agent by a seasoned killer.
Sam Raimi, who directed episodes of the 2020 anthology series, “50 States Of Fright” as did Schindler and Netto, is producing Don’t Move out of his Raimi Productions banner alongside Zainab Azizi, and Hammerstone Studios’ Alex Lebovici. Capstone Studios’ Christian Mercuri is exec producing next to Netto and Schindler, along with David Haring, Marc Manus, and Petr Jákl. Hammerstone and Capstone Global are co-financing with the latter handling worldwide rights.
Don’t Move also marks the latest collaboration between Hammerstone, Raimi, and Capstone Studios following action-thriller Boy Kills World starring Bill Skarsgard, which is currently in post-production.
Raimi Productions’ upcoming projects include Sony Pictures’ thriller 65 starring Adam Driver. Earlier this year, Raimi directed Marvel’s global sensation Doctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madness starring Benedict Cumberbatch.
“It’s amazingly exciting for us to reunite with the genre master Sam Raimi, and Zainab Azizi, who yet again have found two extremely talented young filmmakers in Adam and Brian to bring Don’t Move to life. We are honored to be part of such a fantastic project,” said Lebovici.
“Alex and the team at Hammerstone as well as our friends at Capstone are the ideal production partners as we bring this compelling and twisted tale to light. I am delighted to collaborate again with our co-directors Adam and Brian on this incredibly frightening and tense story full of so many twists and turns – it will deliver a fantastic horror punch to the audience!” added Sam Raimi.
Lebovici has been quietly amassing a string of buzzworthy films out of LA-based Hammerstone. Recent releases include Barbarian, and Bill & Ted Face the Music, with titles now in post-production such as Kung Fury the Movie and Boy Kills World, with Sympathy for the Devil currently in production, and a newly-announced live-action adaptation of the hit video game, Death Stranding.
Raimi Productions is repped by CAA and Hansen, Jacobson, Teller, Hoberman, Newman, Warren, Richman, Rush, Kaller & Gellman L.L.P. Hammerstone Studios is repped by Neil Sacker at Sacker Entertainment Law.