Sam Raimi is heading back to the horror genre as director. The filmmaker behind horror hits like The Evil Dead and Drag Me to Hell has will be at the helm of a 20th Century Studios survival horror thriller called Send Help. And there’s promising casting: Rachel McAdams and Dylan O’Brien as leads.
Send Help will be following two colleagues who survive a plane crash and find themselves stranded on a deserted island. It’s not just about battling the elements—old grudges bubble to the surface, making survival a mental game as much as a physical one.
The screenplay comes from Baywatch writers Damian Shannon and Mark Swift, the duo who previously penned 2009 Jason Voorhees reboot Friday the 13th, 2003’s Freddy vs. Jason, and 2017 comedy Baywatch.
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Deadline broke the news, reporting 20th Century Studios plans to give the film a theatrical release. Besides directing, Raimi is also attached as a producer via his Raimi Productions banner. Zainab Azizi is on board to co-produce.
This project has actually been in the works since at least 2019, when the project was set up at Columbia Pictures. At the time, THR reported that the screenplay was “Misery meets Cast Away” in tone.
McAdams was recently seen in 2023 coming-of-age book adaptation Are You There God? It’s Me, Margaret and reprised her role as Dr. Christine Palmer in Marvel’s Doctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madness.
O’Brien had a busy 2024, playing Dan Aykroyd in Jason Reitman’s Saturday Night and dabbling in eerie waters with the M. Night Shyamalan-produced Caddo Lake.