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Sam Raimi To Direct & Produce Horror Thriller ‘Send Help’ For 20th Century Studios


Sam Raimi has closed a deal to direct 'Send Help,' a new horror thriller for 20th Century Studios, which he'll also produce alongside Zainab Azizi.

Not yet officially greenlighted by the studio, according to our sources, the film is described as a two-hander horror thriller set on an island, falling somewhere between Rob Reiner’s Stephen King adaptation Miser y and Robert Zemeckis’ classic Castaway. Previously collaborating with Beck and Woods as a producer on the Adam Driver sci-fi pic 65, which they helmed for Sony, he’s also known for his directing work on the Spider-Man franchise, as well as titles like Drag Me to Hell and Oz the Great and Powerful. Most recently, the duo wrote, directed and produced the anticipated A24 horror thriller Heretic, starring Hugh Grant, Chloe East and Sophie Thatcher, which hits theaters November 15.

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