James McAvoy reunites with Blumhouse for Speak No Evil, due out in summer 2024

After working together on the combined hits of more than half a billiondivide And Glass, James McAvoy and Blumhouse team up again for a remake of the Danish thriller. don’t say anything bad James Watkins (The woman in black) will direct from his script. Universal’s theatrical release is scheduled for August 9, 2024.

In the original 2022 film, A Danish family visits a Dutch family they met on holiday. What should have been an idyllic weekend slowly begins to fall apart as the Danes try to remain polite despite the inconvenience. Pic is based on the screenplay by Christian Tafdrup and Mads Tafdrup.

Jason Blum will produce the film for Blumhouse, with Paul Ritchie, Christian Tafdrup, Jacob Jarek and Bea Sequeira as EPs.

Watkins made his directorial debut with the cult thriller One more. Then he directed it the woman in black the highest-grossing British horror film since box office records began, with $129 million WW. He performed the sect on television black mirror Consequence, Shut up and dance and co-created and directed the international Emmy Award-winning crime drama McMafia. He has just finished showrunning and directing the 1960s spy thriller series The IpPress file.

BAFTA and Golden Globe nominee McAvoy most recently starred in the third and final season of the BBC/HBO TV series Is dark material He reprized his role as Lord Asriel alongside Lin-Manuel Miranda and Ruth Wilson. In 2022 he returned to the stage to perform in the critically acclaimed and Laurence Olivier Award nominated play Cyrano of Bergerac with director Jamie Lloyd. McAvoy received rave reviews for his performance and received Laurence Olivier and Drama League awards for the role. In 2021, McAvoy appeared in STX Films’ remake of the French thriller my sonwith Claire Foy, with Sharon Horgan in BBC Two’s Together, for which he later gained a BAFTA Scotland nomination. That same year, McAvoy reprized his role as main character Dream in Audible Original’s Die Klaas often: Act II. McAvoy is best known for his screen performances in buses, The last king of Scotland, The Chronicles of Narnia: The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe and his role as Charles Xavier in the X men Franchise. On stage he was seen in the West End Three days of rain, Macbeth at Trafalgar Studios and The ruling classAll this also earned him an Olivier Award nomination Breathing corpses at the royal court, Soldiers on parade at Donmar Warehouse and In the public at the Hampstead Theatre. The actor is repped by United Agents, UTA and Sloane, Offer, Weber and Dern, LLP. Watkins is repped by WME and United Agents.

Universal has always responded to an event title on August 9, 2024. don’t say anything bad will open in the wake of Warner Bros. M. Night Shyamalan movie fall (dated 2 August 2024), who recently relocated to Burbank, California following the release of his Universal title last winter, Knock on the hut ($54.4 million WW).