A couple weeks ago, it was announced that Kit Connor of the hit Netflix series Heartstopper had signed on to star in the mystery horror film One of Us. Now Deadline reports that Connor is being joined in the One of Us cast by Beccy Henderson (Derry Girls), Helena Breen (Hunger), David Horovitch (House Of The Dragon), Douglas Henshall (Shetland), and Sienna Guillory, who is best known for playing the character Jill Valentine in Resident Evil: Apocalypse, Resident Evil: Afterlife, and Resident Evil: Retribution.
Described as an “allegorical film”, One of Us is the feature debut of writer/director Stefan van de Graaff. Filming begins in Belfast, Northern Ireland his month. The movie will show viewers what happens when members of a family begin dying one by one at a funeral, while Youngest (Connor) searches for the stranger in their midst.
Callum Woodhouse (The Durrells), Charlotte Hope (The Spanish Princess), Siobhan Fallon-Hogan (Rushed), and Ian Beattie (Game of Thrones) are also in the cast. Details on the characters are being kept under wraps. The fact that Connor is playing the protagonist called Youngest is really all we know.
Coming our way from the Jung School and Northern Ireland Screen, One of Us is being produced by Raquel Baldwin, with Robert Machoian co-producing and van de Graff serving as executive producer. Bianca Cline, the Marcel the Shell With Shoes On cinematographer who was recently hired to fill in for the late Halyna Hutchins on the troubled (that’s an understatement) Western production Rust when it resumes filming, is the cinematographer on this project as well.
Deadline notes that the Jung School, based in Salt Lake City, Utah, is described to us as “a collective of artists who rely on symbology, allegory, myth, metaphor, and primordial images to make their art with the purpose of healing wounds in the collective unconscious”. One Of Us is their first film production. So that’s interesting. If the movie turns out the way they’re hoping, it’s going to heal some wounds for us.
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