EXCLUSIVE: Olivia Cooke is about to star within the the Neon thriller Brides from Watcher director Chloe Okuno. Okuno will direct from a script she additionally wrote. The pic can be produced by Anthony Bregman and Stefanie Azpiazu by way of Possible Story. Neon will launch the movie theatrically.

Cooke steps in for Maika Monroe who had scheduling points together with her Common movie Reminders of Him. The movie follows Sally Bishop (Cooke) and her husband, who journey to a distant Italian villa the place the villa’s proprietor, a mysterious rely, takes a peculiar curiosity in Sally.

As a filmmaker, Okuno’s characteristic debut was the psychological thriller Watcher, starring Monroe and Burn Gorman, which premiered within the U.S. Dramatic Competitors on the 2022 Sundance Movie Competition and went on to play a number of different festivals. Drawn to genre-based materials that goals to excite and unsettle, her different works embody writing and directing the award-winning horror quick movie Slut and the “Storm Drain” phase of the anthology collection V/H/S/94, in addition to directing episodes from Showtime’s Let the Proper One In and the James Wan-produced collection Teacup.

Finest recognized for her star making roles in Prepared Participant One and Me, Earl and The Dying Lady, Cooke is coming off the second season of the hit Recreation of Thrones collection Home of the Dragon. She not too long ago wrapped manufacturing on the Amazon collection The Girlfriend reverse Robin Wright.

She is repped by CAA, Brillstein Leisure Companions and The Artists Partnership.

In Cannes this 12 months, Neon earned its sixth consecutive Palme d’Or win with Jafar Panahi’s It Was Simply an Accident, which the corporate acquired on the competition, and received a complete of 6 awards throughout all movies together with Grand Prix for Joachim Trier’s Sentimental Worth. Additionally in Cannes, NEON debuted Julia Ducournau’s Alpha, Raoul Peck’s Orwell: 2+2=5, and Michael Angelo Covino’s Splitsville starring Dakota Johnson and Adria Arjona which Neon additionally produced. The corporate acquired North American rights to Sirât from Oliver Laxe; The Secret Agent from acclaimed author/director Kleber Mendonça Filho; and Ugo Bienvenu’s animated characteristic Arco with Natalie Portman.

Neon has constructed a powerful streak successful the coveted Palme d’Or on the Cannes Movie Competition, with six consecutive wins, includingthis most up-to-date 12 months’s winner It Was Simply an Accident, in addition to Anora, Parasite, Anatomy of a Fall, Titane, and Triangle of Unhappiness. In 2024, NEON was named The Hollywood Reporter’s Impartial Studio of the 12 months and obtained the Clio Award for Studio of the 12 months.