Please Don’t Feed the Children: Giancarlo Esposito boards Destry Allyn Spielberg’s feature directorial debut

Look out, Hollywood, Steven Spielberg’s daughter, Destry Allyn Spielberg, is making her feature directorial debut with one of the biggest badasses in the game, Giancarlo Esposito (Breaking Bad, The Mandalorian, Better Call Saul)! According to Deadline, Esposito is joining Spielberg’s upcoming thriller, Please Don’t Feed the Children. The script hails from writer Paul Bertino, with Michelle Dockery, former NFL tight end Vernon Davis, Joshuah Melnick (The Dalles, Saint X), Emma Meisel (American Horror Story, The Dead Girls Detective Agency), Dean Scott Vazquez (Transformers: Rise of the Beasts, 9 Bullets, Manifest), Zoe Colletti (Scary Stories to Tell in the Dark, Annie, The Lego Ninjago Movie), Regan Aliyah (Ironheart, BF for Hire), and Andrew Liner (Vampire Academy, Gray Matter, Bang Bang) making up the ensemble cast.

Pandemic-sensitive viewers beware: the plot for Please Don’t Feed the Children revolves around a group of orphans heading south, searching for a new life after a viral outbreak decimates their country’s adult population. Unfortunately, the new home is hard-fought, as danger lurks everywhere. Jason Dubin produces through Perry Street Films with Josh Kesselman and Michael Hagerty.

Spielberg is thrilled to have Esposito along for the wild ride, saying, “What an honor it is to be working with such a respected and talented artist -Huzzah!”

Huzzah, indeed! Destry Allyn Spielberg is an established actress and director. She appears in such films as Licorice Pizza, I Know This Much Is True, Mass Hysteria, and the shorts Rosie and Nerds. Please Don’t Feed the Children is in pre-production with her other project, Four Assassins (And a Funeral), in development. In Four Assassins (And a Funeral), the youngest son of a legendary assassin returns home for his father’s funeral. Still, he winds up in the crosshairs of his four highly-trained, extremely dangerous siblings.

Are you curious what Destry Allyn Speilberg can bring with her first feature directorial debut? There’s no pressure. It’s not like her father is one of cinema’s most enigmatic filmmakers or anything like that. I’m excited to see the film’s overall look, and the story sounds intriguing. We’ll closely monitor this and update you as it happens.